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 | | | Pain | Intervention | Control | Mann–Whitney U test | value | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
| The first day of surgery | 9.44 | 0.96 | 9.36 | 0.91 | −0.64 | 0.52 | Before intervention (the second day after surgery) | 8.28 | 1.24 | 7.96 | 1.14 | −1.15 | 0.25 | Immediately after intervention (the fourth day after surgery) | 3.48 | 1.26 | 5.72 | 1.7 | −4.31 | <0.001 | One week after intervention (the eleventh day after surgery) | 1.32 | 0.94 | 4.32 | 1.68 | −5.53 | <0.001 | Friedman test | 71.76 | 71.94 | — | value | <0.001 | <0.001 | — |
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