The Effect of Breathing Exercise and ROM Exercise towards the Decrease of Fatigue Level Intradialysis in Hemodialysis Unit at Dr. Adjidarmo HOSPITAL Banten
diana rhismawati djupri
sekolah tinggi ilmu kesehatan pertamedika
Abstract
Fatigue has dominant effect in the quality of life of hemodialysis patient. This study purposes to know the effect of breathing exercise and ROM exercise to the decrease of Intradialysis Level Fatigue in Hemodialysis Unit at Dr. Adjidarmo HOSPITAL Banten.The design of this study was the Pre-Experimental Design with One Group Pretest Posttest method involving the number of samples of 28 respondents, the measurement tool used was the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). Chi square is used as sample, with p value 0,001. The result of this study showed that there was a significant effect between breathing exercise and ROM excercise towards the decrease of fatigue level intradialysis (p value < 0,05). The result of this study showed that there was a significant effect between the confounding variables (age, education background and the length of having haemodialysis towards intradialysis fatigue). While between the confounding variables, they were gender and occupation, there was no significant effect towards intradialysis fatigue. So that the breathing exercise and ROM exercise can be used as one of the nursing intervention alternatives in reducing the level of intradialysis fatigue.
Keywords: fatigue, breathing exercise, ROM exercise, chronic renal failure, hemodialysis
Topic: International Conference on Nursing