발 반사마사지가 성인여성의 심신이완에 미치는 영향

Abstract

본 연구는 성인여성에게 발 반사마사지를 적용하여 심신이완에 미치는 효과를 규명하고자 시도되었다. 본 연구의 대상자는 G시의 미용학원의 성인여성을 대상으로 대조군 14명과 실험군 15명으로 모두 29명이었다. 자료 수집은 2005년 1월 20일부터 2005년 3월 17일 까지였고 발 반사마사지의 적용 횟수는 일주일에 두 번 총10회에 걸쳐 한 번 시행 시 30분의 시간을 적용 하였다. 연구방법에 대하여는 사전에 본 연구에 대한 취지를 설명하고 동의한 여성에게 사전 설문을 받았으며, 발 반사마사지 시행 전 후 매회 적용 할 때 마다 혈압, 맥박, 하지둘레(종아리둘레, 발목둘레, 발등둘레)를 측정하였다. 발 반사마사지 10회 실시 후 다시 사후 설문조사를 실시하여 필요한 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료의 통계 프로그램은 SPSS WIN 12.0을 이용 하였으며 신뢰도를 위한 측정은 cromba-a를 이용하여 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 발 반사마사지를 적용한 실험군은 발 반사마사지를 받지 않은 대조군 보다 수축기압, 맥박이 유의적으로 낮아졌다. 즉 수축기압(p<0.01)이며, 5회 맥박(p<0.05)에서 나타났고, 10회 맥박에서는(p<0.01)로 유의적인 차이가 있었다. 이완기압 에서는 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았다. 2) 발 반사마사지 후 종아리 둘레는 1회, 5회 10회의 결과를 비교한 결과 1-5회에서는 차이가 나타나지 않았으나 10회 좌(p<0.05) 우(p<0.05) 에서 유의적인 차이가 있었다. 3) 발 반사마사지 후 발목둘레에서도 좌(p<0.05), 우(p<0.01) 모두 유의적인 감소를 나타내었다. 4) 발 반사마사지 시행 후 발등둘레에서도 좌(p<0.01) 우(p<0.001)에서 유의적인 감소를 나타내었다. 5) 발 반사마사지 적용 전·후신체적 건강(p<0.001), 스트레스(p<0.001), 불안·우울(p,0.001), 수면(p<0.001)에 긍정적인 효과를 보였다. 설문 조사에 의해 신체적, 심리적 자각증상에 대하여 긍정적인 효과를 나타내고 있었다. 따라서 발 반사마사지가 수축기 혈압, 맥박, 하지 부종에 긍정적인 변화가 있었으며 이완기 혈압에서는 긍정적인 효과를 보이지 못 하였다. 설문으로 수집한 신체적 증상이나 심리적인 증상에서도 실험전과 실험 후에 긍정적인 변화를 볼 수 있어 발 반사마사지가 여성의 심신이완에 도움이 되는 것으로 사료된다.|This is an experimental research to determine effects of foot reflexology on mental and physical relaxation by applying it to adult women. This study was conducted with 29 adult women at a beauty school in G City: 14 for the control group and 15 for the experimental group. Data were collected between January 20 and March 17, 2005; a total of ten sessions of foot reflexology were applied, two sessions a week and thirty minutes for each session. After after giving a prior explanation of the purport of this study, the prior survey was carried out with adult women with their consent; both blood pressure and the girth of the lower limbs (legs, ankles, and the top side of the foot) were measured before and after each session of foot reflexology. After ten sessions of foot reflexology, the post survey was carried out to collect necessary data. The statistic program (SPSSWIN 12.0) was used to analyze the data collected and cromba-α was applied to analyze reliability of the tool. The experiment obtained the following results. 1) Hypothesis 1 was that women in the experimental group provided with foot reflexology would see their systolic and diastolic pressure and pulse rate lower than those in the control group. The results demonstrated that systolic pressure was (p<0.01) and the pulse rate was (p<0.05) at the fifth session and became (p<0.01) at the tenth session, which is significant. There was no meaningful value of diastolic pressure (p<0.056); consequently, Hypothesis 1 was partly proved. 2) Hypothesis 2 was that the girth of the leg would decrease after foot reflexology. A comparison was made between the results of first, fifth, and tenth sessions. There was no difference between the results of the first session and those of the fifth session and the tenth session (left: p<0.05) produced significant results, proving Hypothesis 2. 3) Hypothesis 3 was that the girth of the ankle would decrease after foot reflexology. There was a significant decrease in the girth of both right (p<0.05) and left ankles (p<0.01), proving Hypothesis 3. 4) Hypothesis 4 was that the girth of the top side of the foot would decrease after foot reflexology. There was a significant decrease in the girth of the top side of both right (p<0.01) and left feet (p<0.001). 5) Hypothesis 5 was that foot reflexology would have a positive effect on physical health, stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep. Through a survey, data on the evaluation of physically and mentally subjective symptoms were represented numerically as follows: It was shown to have a positive effect on physical health (p<0.001), stress(p<0.001), anxiety, depression (p<0.001),and sleep (p<0.001). In short, this study could see a positive effect of foot reflexology on systolic blood pressure, pulse rate, and edema in the lower limbs but no positive effect on diastolic blood pressure. There was also a positive change in physical or mental symptoms collected through the survey between before and after the experiment; it is therefore thought that foot reflexology can be used as a fundamental means to help women improve their body and mind.