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

Table 2

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


	Group
Fatigue	Intervention	Control			Statistical test	value	Mean difference	value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD

The first day of surgery	8.76	1.27	8.6	1.26	12.74	0.001	0.16	0.66
Before intervention (the second day after surgery)	7.52	1.16	7.2	1.68			0.32	0.44
Immediately after intervention (the fourth day after surgery)	3.32	1.41	5.56	1.66			−2.24	<0.001
One week after intervention (eleventh day after surgery)	1.24	1.2	3.92	1.63			−2.68	<0.001
Sphericity test	300.34		89.81		—
value	<0.001		<0.001		—

^∗Repeated measures analysis of variance. ^∗∗Adjusted for multiple comparisons.