title: Effect of baby oil on pruritus, sleep quality, and quality of life in hemodialysis patients: pretest-post-test model with control groups.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the effect of baby oil on pruritus, sleep quality, and quality of life in hemodialysis (HD) patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This pretest-post-test model with control groups study was conducted in HD units in two different provinces in eastern Turkey. The study group consisted of a total of 70 patients receiving HD treatment who met the inclusion criteria, 35 being in the intervention group and 35 in the control group. After the patients in both groups were informed about the study, they were administered a questionnaire, the Severity Scale, Visual Analog Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the SF-36 Quality of Life Scale. Following the administration of baby oil to the patients in the intervention group three times a week for a period of 1 month, the same scales were repeated to explore their pruritic status, sleep quality, and quality of life. The same scales were repeated also for the patients in the control group 1 month later but without administering any baby oil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When the Itch Severity Scale, Visual Analog Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and SF-36 Quality of Life Physical and Mental Component scores of the patients in the control and intervention groups before and after the intervention were compared, the differences in the change were found to be statistically significant in favor of the intervention group (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was found in this study that administration of baby oil had positive effects on itching, quality of life, and sleep quality in HD patients who had itching complaints.
authors: Health High School, Tunceli University, Tunceli, Turkey.
authors: Ezgi
authors: E
authors: Karadag
authors: Serap Parlar
authors: SP
authors: Kilic
authors: Gülnaz
authors: G
authors: Karatay
authors: Ozgur
authors: O
authors: Metin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009821:Oils; D011537:Pruritus / Q000628:therapy*; D011788:Quality of Life; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012890:Sleep; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D009821:Oils
keywords: baby oil; hemodialysis; nursing; patients; pruritus