 The Effectiveness of Benson’s Relaxation Technique on Pain and Perceived Stress Among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Double-Blind, Cluster-Randomized, Active Control Clinical TrialHaya Ibrahim Ali Abu Maloh, Kim Lam Soh, Seng Choi Chong, Siti Irma Fadhilah Ismail, Kim Geok Soh, Dima Ibrahim Abu Maloh, Nabeel Al Yateem and Mohannad Eid AbuRuz Clinical Nursing Research, 2023, vol. 32, issue 2, 288-297 Abstract: Benson’s relaxation affects many symptoms among hemodialysis patients. A cluster-randomized active control clinical trial with three repeated measures; pre, 1-week, and 1-month post-intervention sought to evaluate the effectiveness of Benson’s Relaxation on pain and perceived stress (P&PS) among hemodialysis patients. Two governmental hospitals were randomly assigned to intervention and control. Thirty-six participants were randomly selected; 18 were intervention, and 18 were controlled. The intervention group performed Benson’s Relaxation twice a day for 10 minutes for 8 weeks after a training session. The control group received an educational session about Progressive Relaxation. Findings revealed a statistically significant reduction in the PSS-10 and PRI scores between pre-intervention and 1 month after-intervention ( p    .05). Benson’s Relaxation significantly relieved P&PS among hemodialysis patients but not after only 1 week of practicing. Keywords: relaxation therapy; pain; perceived stress; hemodialysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:clnure:v:32:y:2023:i:2:p:288-297 DOI: 10.1177/10547738221112759 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Clinical Nursing Research |
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