The research title is the effect of hot footbath on the sleep quality of patients with chronic schizophrenia. The research was a randomized controlled trial. The setting was the chronic inpatient wards at a psychiatric teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan. A total of 63 participants, 30 in the hot footbath group and 33 in the control group, were completed the study from November 2019 to June 2020. Participants were randomly allocated to the experimental group and the control group. Through this method, we explored whether the trial could effectively improve patients' sleep quality.
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Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Timeframe: pretest
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Timeframe: up to 4 weeks