Purpose The aim of this study is to determine the effect of shoulder massage administered to patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy on pain and sleep quality. Design The study was designed as a randomized controlled trial. Methods This study was carried out with 60 patients who underwent surgery at the General Surgery Department of a university's Faculty of Medicine between January 2020 and March 2021. The study was completed with 60 patients (30 in the intervention group and 30 in the control group). The patients in the intervention group received shoulder massage twice at 6-hour intervals. The data for the study were collected using the "Individual Introduction Form", the "Visual Comparison Scale", and the "Richard Campbell Sleep Scale" .
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Visual analog scale (VAS)
Timeframe: "through study completion, an average of 1 hour".
Richard-Campbell sleep scale
Timeframe: "through study completion, an average of 12 hour".