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

Table 3

Comparison of mean score of quality of sleep in intervention and control groups.

	Group
Quality of sleep	Intervention	Control			Statistical test	P value	Mean difference	value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
The first day of surgery	33.38	11.22	39.59	12.8	10.84	<0.001	−6.21	0.07
Before intervention (the second day after surgery)	41.98	13.92	42.15	11.78			−0.17	0.96
Immediately after intervention (the fourth day after surgery)	60.60	10.75	52.23	11.76			8.38	0.01
One week after intervention (the eleventh day after surgery)	69.43	8.74	56.27	8.03			13.17	<0.001
Greenhouse–Geisser test	76.12		19.22		—
value	<0.001		<0.001		—

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