Abstract

Sadegh Mahdavi Pour, and Ali Akbar Vaezi*

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Heart pain may cause change of vital signs, increasing of the heart oxygen need and increasing of mortality of patients with heart diseases. There are many on-medicinal methods for pain control, such as massage, and massage if continues by stimulating thick fibers and local provocation of endorphins prohibits pain transfer, so this study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of frontal chest massage by the nurse on pain severity of men hospitalized patients. Materials and methods: this study was semi-experimental of clinical trial kinds, which among men patients with instable angina pectoris above 40 years old who referred to Yasouj training hospital of Imam Sajad in 2016, 64 patients were selected with convenient sampling method and with random designation, were assigned to two groups of test and control (each group 32 patients). For measuring pain severity in two groups VAS visual criterion was used, while the control group received routine procedures for pain control and in test group, besides that, simultaneously chest massage of frontal chest was performed with Tellington method and then chest pain severity was measured and recorded. After collecting data, paired T-test and bilateral variance analysis were used and data was analyzed using SPSS 21 software. Findings: In test group, the average score of pain severity after massage therapy was 3 and in control group this score was 6 and the least score of pain severity in test and control group was 2 and 6 respectively and the highest score of pain severity in test group was 3 and in control group 7. The difference of pain severity average score was analyzed using SPSS 21 software based on coupled t-test and bilateral variance analysis and the statistical difference was significant (P< 0.05). Conclusion: chest massage with Tellington method in men patients with heart disease in CCU causes chest pain reduction in patients with unstable angina pectoris. Therefore, using this simple and cheap method which is along with the patient attention is recommended.