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

<div class="floats-full-page floats-full-page-other"><h2>Table 1</h2><div class="floats-full-page-caption"><div>Comparison of mean score of pain in intervention and control groups.</div></div><div class="floats-full-page-content"><table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr /></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"></td><td class="align_center" colspan="4">Group</td><td class="align_left"></td><td class="align_left"></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Pain</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Intervention</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Control</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Mann–Whitney U test</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2"><svg height="8.68572pt" id="M18" style="vertical-align:-0.0498209pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.6359 8.15071 8.68572" width="8.15071pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M600 480C600 590 528 650 384 650H143L137 622C222 614 225 607 210 531L130 127C113 41 106 36 23 28L17 0H294L300 28C204 36 195 42 212 127L243 284L314 263C327 263 339 263 352 264C465 271 600 337 600 480ZM508 481C508 351 402 304 329 304C289 304 265 311 250 317L295 559C302 594 310 606 323 611C335 616 350 619 367 619C455 619 508 573 508 481Z"></path></g></svg> value</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">Mean</td><td class="align_center">SD</td><td class="align_center">Mean</td><td class="align_center">SD</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">The first day of surgery</td><td class="align_center">9.44</td><td class="align_center">0.96</td><td class="align_center">9.36</td><td class="align_center">0.91</td><td class="align_center">−0.64</td><td class="align_center">0.52</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Before intervention (the second day after surgery)</td><td class="align_center">8.28</td><td class="align_center">1.24</td><td class="align_center">7.96</td><td class="align_center">1.14</td><td class="align_center">−1.15</td><td class="align_center">0.25</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Immediately after intervention (the fourth day after surgery)</td><td class="align_center">3.48</td><td class="align_center">1.26</td><td class="align_center">5.72</td><td class="align_center">1.7</td><td class="align_center">−4.31</td><td class="align_center">&lt;0.001</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">One week after intervention (the eleventh day after surgery)</td><td class="align_center">1.32</td><td class="align_center">0.94</td><td class="align_center">4.32</td><td class="align_center">1.68</td><td class="align_center">−5.53</td><td class="align_center">&lt;0.001</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Friedman test</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">71.76</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">71.94</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">—</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><svg height="8.68572pt" id="M19" style="vertical-align:-0.0498209pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.6359 8.15071 8.68572" width="8.15071pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M600 480C600 590 528 650 384 650H143L137 622C222 614 225 607 210 531L130 127C113 41 106 36 23 28L17 0H294L300 28C204 36 195 42 212 127L243 284L314 263C327 263 339 263 352 264C465 271 600 337 600 480ZM508 481C508 351 402 304 329 304C289 304 265 311 250 317L295 559C302 594 310 606 323 611C335 616 350 619 367 619C455 619 508 573 508 481Z"></path></g></svg> value</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">&lt;0.001</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">&lt;0.001</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">—</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="7"><hr class="tbody-hr" /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></div>

Table 1 | Effect of Foot Reflexology on Pain, Fatigue, and Quality of Sleep after Kidney Transplantation Surgery: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

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Table 1: Effect of Foot Reflexology on Pain, Fatigue, and Quality of Sleep after Kidney Transplantation Surgery: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

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