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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
World Nursing 2017
July 10-12, 2017
23
rd
World Nursing and Healthcare Conference
July 10-12, 2017 Berlin, Germany
Using the nursing outcome "Tissue Integrity: skin and mucous membranes" to measure the effect of foot
reflexology on feet of people susceptible to skin rupture
Emilia C D Carvalho
1
, Natália C M D Silva
1
and
Sue Moorhead
2
1
University of São Paulo, Brazil
2
University of Iowa, USA
T
his randomized clinical trial was performed to evaluate the effect of foot reflexology on the feet of 78 people susceptible to skin
rupture, by the nursing outcome “Tissue Integrity: skin and mucous membranes”. In the initial phase, the feet of the participants
were evaluated by 20 indicators (score 1 to 5). The score of the nursing outcome was determined by the average of their indicators'
scores. Participants were randomized into two groups: Intervention (n=40), that received 16 sessions of foot reflexology in the eight-
week period; Control (n=38), that received usual care. In the final phase, the score of the nursing outcome was determined again. The
Intervention group presented, at the beginning of the study, the average score of 4.64 (SD=0.28) and, at the end, of 4.90 (SD=0.13);
the Control group presented, in the initial phase, average score of 4.66 (SD=0.22); and, in the final phase, of 4.50 (SD=0.26). There
was equivalent in the scores presented by the groups (intergroup analysis) at the beginning (p=0.951), and differences between them
at the end (p<0.001). When comparing the two periods (intragroup analysis), there was an increase in the Intervention group scores
(p<0.001) and decreased in the Control group scores (p<0.001). After the intervention, participants of the Intervention group showed
improvement and the participants of the Control group showed worsening in the score of the nursing outcome "Tissue Integrity: skin
and mucous membranes".
Biography
Emilia C D Carvalho is Senior Professor in the University of São Paulo. She was the Dean of the Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil. She was involved as
a member in the Brazilian Nursing Association, NANDA-I and Sigma Theta Tau International- Rho Upsilon Chapther . She has supervised doctoral, masters and
undergraduate courses in Nursing. ‘She has many clinical researches published in national and international journals.
Emilia C D Carvalho et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-049