In open heart surgeries, patients experience severe pain due to tissue trauma, damage to intercostal nerves, and muscle spasm due to pulling tubes from the mediastinal space and between the pleural leaves pull during chet tube removal (CTR). When acute pain is not relieved, the patient develops emotional, psychological (eg post-traumatic stress disorder) and physical problems (eg chronic pain) after surgery. Since this situation negatively affects the healing process, it increases the anxiety level of the patients and decreases the comfort level. Reflexology is one of the non-pharmacological methods used in the management of pain and anxiety after open heart surgery The aim of this randomized controlled study was to identify the effect of foot reflexology applied before chest tube removal process on pain and anxiety level. This study will be done a randomized-controlled trial to test the intervention.
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Numeric Pain Rating Scale Change
Timeframe: 1st postoperative day change from baseline pain score at after intervention, 2nd postoperative day change from baseline pain score at during, 15th min,1h after chest tube removal
Profile of Mood States Scale Tension-Anxiety Subscale Change
Timeframe: 1st postoperative day change from baseline pain score at after intervention, 2nd postoperative day change from baseline pain score at during, 15th min after chest tube removal