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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of foot reflex massage on the constipation of
high school dance majors. Data were gathered from July 13 to August 23, 2009. The subjects in this study were 21 juniors who majored in dance in B arts high school in the city of Busan. After 48 dance juniors were surveyed to find out whether they suffered from constipation, 21 constipated students were explained about the intent and purpose of the study, and they were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group with 10 and 11 respectively with their consent. A pretest was carried out to check their general characteristics, weight control and stipationrelated characteristics(CAS, frequency of evacuation and form of evacuation). Foot reflex massage was provided to the experimental group during a six-week period of time, twice a week, 30 minutes each, at 1 to 3.30 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. which were respectively one hour after they had lunch and dinner. They received the massage 12 times in total. The collected data were analyzed with a SPSS(Statistical Package for Social Science) Ver. 12.0 program. A frequency analysis was conducted to obtain statistical data, and independent-samples t-test was utilized to see if the two groups were equivalent. Besides, one-way ANOVA was employed.
The findings of the study were as follows:
1. There were no statistically significant gaps between the experimental and control groups in general characteristics, which showed that they could be said to be equivalent(p>.05).
2. The simple effect of the experiment was investigated to see if there were any significant changes in CAS with the lapse of time, and no significant change was found in CAS in the first week(F=.191, p>.05) and second week(F=1.755, p>.05) of the experiment. But they underwent significant changes in and after the third week(F=13.465, p<.01). And a significant change was found in the sixth week(F=125.857, p<.01) of the experiment as well.
3. The simple effect of the experiment was checked to look for any possible changes in evacuation frequency. There was no significant change in that regard in the first week(F=2/166. p>.05), but they started to undergo a significant change in the second week(F=58.488, p<.01) of the experiment, and a significant change was found in the final sixth week(F=287.557, p<.01) of the experiment as well.
4. Cross tabulation was utilized to look for any possible changes in the form of evacuation, and soft extrements accounted for 90 percent in the experimental group at first. But there was a significant change in the sixth week of the experiment as soft extrements represented 90 percent. In the case of the control group, hard extrements accounted for 36.4 percent before the experiment, and the rate of hard extrements stood at 90.0 percent in the sixth week of the experiment. Therefore it could be said that the constipation of the experimental group was relieved to some extent, and that the foot reflex massage provided to the experimental group had an effect on relieving their constipation.
The above-mentioned findings made it clear that the foot reflex massage offered to the high school dance majors was partially effective at increasing their weekly evacuation frequency, lowering their CAS and improving their form of evaluation, and that it was consequently one of effective intervention methods to relieve constipation.