Background: A study to assess the effectiveness of hydrotherapy as complementary therapy for patients with arthritis among rural area. Material And Method: The quantitative research approach with A quasi experimental study design is used in this study. Two group one control group one experimental group was used in this study to achieve the objectives. The sample size of the study consists of 50 patients with study pain among clients with arthritis at Kondanchery. Clients were selected using the purposive sampling technique method who filled the inclusion criteria the demographic variables and Numerical Pain Rating Scale used for data was collected to level of pain among arthritis RESULTS: shows that in the control group, the pretest mean score of pain was 7.00±1.19 and the post-test mean score was 6.88±1.17. The mean difference pain score was 0.12. The calculated paired ‘t’ test value of t = 1.809 shows that there was no significant reduction in the level of pain between the pretest and the post-test. 4 shows that the clinical variable presence of co-morbidities (?2=9.881, p=0.042) had shown statistically significant association with post-test level of pain among patients with arthritis at p<0.05level and the other demographic variables had not shown statistically significant association with post-test level of pain among patients with arthritis. CONCULSION: to assess the effectiveness of hydrotherapy as complementary therapy for to reduce pain.
Arthritis, hydrotherapy, complementary therapy
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