A warm footbath before bedtime and sleep in older Taiwanese with sleep disturbance

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 514-528

  Liao, Wen Chun ^a   Chiu, Ming Jang ^b   Landis, Carol A ^c  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Sleep rest

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEAT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REM SLEEP; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TAIWAN; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATHS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52449115747     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20283     Document Type: Article

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