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Effectiveness of Foot Massage on Physiological Parameters among Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Abstract

Background: The term used to describe patients presenting signs of myocardial infarction or ischemia is acute coronary syndrome. The acute coronary syndrome is one of the most common cardiac conditions requiring hospital admission globally. There are three forms of this syndrome: unstable angina, myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation, and myocardial infarction without ST segment elevation.
Objectives: To assess of the physiological parameters (heart rate, respiration, mean arterial blood pressure, pulse pressure, peripheral oxygen saturation) for patients suffer from acute coronary syndrome. Examine the effects of foot massage on acute coronary syndrome patients’ physiological indicators.
Methodology: A quasi-experimental study design was conducted between Sep, 25, 2023 to June, 20, 2024. At the Karbala center for cardiac diseases and surgery in Kerbala holy city. A nonprobability (purposeful) technique of sampling, consists of sixty patients undergoing acute coronary syndrome, separated into two groups: control and foot massage groups. The data were collected using physiological parameters scale. The scale validity was investigated by panel of thirteen experts and reliability by pilot study. After the data were input into the SPSS program, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.
Results: The two-thirds of the patients participating in the study and control groups are within the age groups of 50-69 years old and accounted 63.3%, 60% for the control and study group respectively. The males in the study group are 76.7% and in control group are 73.3%. Although the greater ratio (83.3%) and (80%) of the patients who participated in a study group and control group respectively are married. The study revealed a significant statistical differences between the mean of the all cardiopulmonary parameters indications for the study group except indication of pulse pressure after foot massage, at a p-value of ≤0.05.
Conclusions: Foot massage is effective to enhance and improve the physiological indicators in individuals with acute coronary syndrome.
Recommendations: The researcher recommended that hospitals should make foot massage a regular part of their care.