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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department, Yenepoya Nursing College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education, Vol 6, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 132-134
Abstract
Sleep-related disorders are common in the general adult population; Therapeutic massage is an ideal way to deal with the health disorders naturally. A quasi experimental study has been carried out to determine the effectiveness of therapeutic back massage on quality of sleep among 60 elderly people in the selected old age homes, in Mangalore, Karnataka, India , found that there was significant difference 6.23 (p<0.05) and improvement (F = 80.463, p<0.05) in the quality of sleep of elderly among experimental and control group. The study concluded that therapeutic back massage was effective to promote the quality of sleep among elderly population.
Keywords
Therapeutic Back Massage, Quality of Sleep, Elderly, Old Age Homes
