Study the Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxtion Theque on Anxiety and Depression in Hemodialysis Patients

Background and óóAim: Dialysis is a stressful and invasive process which has numerous psychological and social problems that can lead to mental disorders in patients. This study was a quasi-experimental study. The population consisted of all hemodialysis patients admitted to hospital more than 15 years in Imam Reza, of which 42 were selected as sample. Measuring the hospital anxiety and depression scale before and after the intervention and control groups was carried out. The intervention included a progressive muscle relaxation technique. The analysis of demographic data showed that the average age was 53.2 in the experimental group and 53.1 in the control group and there was no significant difference between the two groups (p =0.978). In terms of other factors including gender (p =1), marital status (p =0.419) jobs (p =0,170) education (p =0.828), cause of failure (p =0.406), history (p =0.536), transplant (p =0.082), the list of transplant (p =0.082), the number of transplant (p =0.510), transplant period (p =0.989), number of dialysis per week (p =0.077). There was no significant difference between the two groups. There was significant differences between two groups in average of dialysis hours which was further in experimental group (p =0.002). There was significant difference between two groups in anxiety number average. (p =0.000), there was no significant difference between depression number average in two groups (p =0.474).
Discussion and Due to the positive effect of muscle relaxation techniques to reduce and control anxiety and depression in hemodialysis patients, teaching this techniques recommended in patients undergoing hemodialysis.