Research Article

Effect of Foot Reflexology on Pain, Fatigue, and Quality of Sleep after Kidney Transplantation Surgery: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Comparison of mean score of pain in intervention and control groups.

Group
PainInterventionControlMann–Whitney U test value
MeanSDMeanSD

The first day of surgery9.440.969.360.91−0.640.52
Before intervention (the second day after surgery)8.281.247.961.14−1.150.25
Immediately after intervention (the fourth day after surgery)3.481.265.721.7−4.31<0.001
One week after intervention (the eleventh day after surgery)1.320.944.321.68−5.53<0.001
Friedman test71.7671.94
value<0.001<0.001