Effect of Abdominal Massage on Patients in Intensive Care Unit
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: abdominal massage.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Intensive Care Unit Patients, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Abdominal Massage. Basic parameters: 18 years — 80 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Investigation of the Effect of Abdominal Massage on Patients in Intensive Care Unit: Randomised Controlled Trial
Overview
Bowel motility can be affected by many factors such as immobilization, lack of fiber in the nutritional formula, inadequate fluid intake, and lack of privacy for toileting in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Abdominal massage, which is one of the effective methods to increase intestinal motility, is accepted as an intervention that can be safely applied in patients. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of abdominal massage applied to patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use. Hypotheses H0: Abdominal massage application has no effect on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use in patients hospitalized in intensive care unit. H1: Abdominal massage application has an effect on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use in patients hospitalized in intensive care unit. In this randomized controlled study, the data of patients who received abdominal massage for 5 days during routine physiotherapy applications and those who did not will be recorded. Randomization will be performed in a 1:1 ratio using a computer generated randomization schedule. The effect of abdominal massage on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care, amount and duration of antibiotic use will be examined by using the data of 2 groups with and without abdominal massage in a randomized controlled trial.
Interventions
- Other abdominal massage
In addition to routine physiotherapy, abdominal massage will be applied by the physiotherapist. The patient is positioned supine. The abdominal muscles are stroked three times, followed by colon stroking performed three times, and colon kneading performed three times. The massage is concluded by repeating the colon and abdominal stroking techniques in the same manner. Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit will routinely receive abdominal massage twice daily by the physiotherapist
Primary outcome measures
- Incidence of Sepsis During Follow-Up [Time frame: From ICU admission through Day 5 of follow-up]
- Survival Rate During Follow-Up [Time frame: From ICU admission through Day 5 of follow-up]
- Length of ICU Stay [Time frame: From ICU admission through Day 5 of follow-up]
- Duration of Antibiotic Use [Time frame: From ICU admission through Day 5 of follow-up, recorde in days]
- Amount of Antibiotic Consumption [Time frame: From ICU admission through Day 5 of follow-up, recorded in milligrams (mg)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients aged between 18 to 80 years
- Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit for more than 3 days
- Body Mass Index less than 30 kg/m²
- Patients who are not mobilized out of bed
- Patients without any intervention contraindicating abdominal massage
Exclusion criteria
- History of abdominal surgery
- Active gastrointestinal bleeding
- Patients discharged from ICU within less than 5 days after enrollment
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06950580 · 2025/10