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Abstract
The study’ aim was to determine effect of wrapped warm footbath
on pain and anxiety levels among patients with advanced cancer. Setting:
The study was carried out at oncology department of Menoufia
University Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 100 patients of
both sexes with advanced cancer was randomly selected and assigned
alternatively and randomly into two equal groups, 50 patients for each
group. Tools of the study: Four tools were used for data collection:
BiosociodemographicStructural interview questionnaire, Visual Analogue
Pain Scale, Abbey Pain Scale and Hamilton anxiety scale. Results: It is
revealed that the mean ages for the study groups was 56.48 ± 14.10 years
and control group 59.84 ± 12.16 years. There was a significant
improvement in mean subjective pain score of study group 8.90±0.76 at
pre intervention to become 4.32±0.96 and 3.82±0.80 1st and 3rd week post
intervention respectively than control group. Also there was significant
improvement in mean anxiety scores of study group 7.76 ± 1.85 pre
intervention to become 5.68 ± 1.70 and 4.24±1.40 1st week and 3rd week
post intervention than control group. Conclusions: Pain and anxiety
levels reduced among advanced cancer patients who performed wrapped
warm footbath than those who exposed only to the routine hospital care.
Recommendations: Suprevised health education should be carried out
for all patients with advanced cancer patients to alleviate pain and anxiety
levels especially warm footbath and colored booklet should be available
and distributed to all patients with advanced cancer.