Volume 15, Issue 3 (June 2017)                   Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2017, 15(3): 168-175 | Back to browse issues page

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Mohammad pour A L, sadeghian S, Salari M. THE EFFECT OF LOCAL HEAT THERAPY ON THE STATE OF DEFECATION IN PATIENTS BEING FED THROUGH NASOGASTRIC TUBE. Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2017; 15 (3) :168-175
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1- Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
2- Master of Science in Nursing Education, Student Research Committee Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran (Corresponding Author) , Sadeghiands2@gmail.com
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Background & Aims: Constipation is Common complication gastrointestinal that have a significant impact on the health and quality of life. Using heat therapy is one of the proposed non-pharmaceutical interventions. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of abdominal local heat therapy on the state of defecation in patients fed through nasogastric tubes. Materials & Methods: This study is a double blind clinical trial performed in 2015 to 8 months in the inner part of Qaem Hospital of Mashhad - Iran. In this study, 64 patients on nutrition through a nasogastric tube were randomly studied into two groups: placebo and experimental group. The patients in experimental group of local heat therapy with standard hot pack with the temperature 50 ° C on the abdomen for 23 minutes. In the placebo group, hot pack temperature was equal to the ambient temperature. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and a form containing records of the patients’ digestive function. Data were analyzed in SPSS 20. Results: Defecation in the experimental group statistically had a significant difference before and after the intervention (p
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