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
Pain	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mann–Whitney U test	value

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		—