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| Title |
A family caregiver’s relaxation enhances the gastric motility function of the patient: a crossover study
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| Published in |
BioPsychoSocial Medicine, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13030-015-0048-y |
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| Authors |
Hideaki Hasuo, Kenji Kanbara, Yasuyuki Mizuno, Junji Nishiyama, Mikihiko Fukunaga, Naoko Yunoki |
| Abstract |
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a caregiver's relaxation on the gastric motility function of the patient. The secondary purpose was to evaluate changes in the caregiver's willingness to perform self-care following feedback on the results of the primary purpose. Subjects were 26 patients with a decreased level of consciousness who received gastrostomy tube feeding and their 26 family caregivers. We compared the patient's gastric motility under the condition of having his or her hand held with and without caregiver relaxation (crossover study). Changes in the caregiver's willingness to perform self-care following feedback on the results was evaluated using self-administered questionnaires. Hypnosis was used for relaxation. The outcomes assessed for gastric motility function were the motility index and gastric emptying rate by ultrasonography examination. Hand-holding by the family caregiver while he or she was receiving relaxation enhanced the patient's gastric motility function. By giving feedback on the results, the caregiver's willingness to adopt self-care was increased and his or her sense of guilt was reduced. This study suggested that a caregiver's relaxation increases the gastric motility function of the patient and that gettinng feedback including the positive results increases the caregiver's willingness to perform self-care, which consequently reduce the caregiver burden. |
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| Japan | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Japan | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 8 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 3 | 33% |
| Other | 2 | 22% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 22% |
| Professor | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 44% |
| Psychology | 2 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 1 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 June 2016.
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#13,099,668
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#149
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#129,199
of 284,235 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BioPsychoSocial Medicine
#2
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