Article: Benefit to Family Members of Delivering Hand Massage with Essential Oil

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Article: Benefit to Family Members of Delivering Hand Massage with Essential Oils to Critically Ill Patients (Prichard & Newcomb, 2015) refer to

Book: chapter 11 of Grove, Gray, and Burns (2015): Understanding Nursing Research

21. Which one of these statements from the article would be considered a non-significant result.

a. A genuine randomized controlled trial could be informative with a relatively small sample size.

b. The groups did not differ significantly with respect to change in the HADS-D scores (t = -1.69, p = .10)

c. Research to discover acceptability of complementary therapies to different groups and to test such interventions with unrelated but available persons would be of interest.

d. Gentle hand massage with essential oils substantially reduced the anxiety level of the family member administering the massage (t = -3.44, p = .002).

Explanation / Answer

Answer: The statement d is the non-significant result from the article. Hence the correct choice is d.

This can be read and compare in the 2nd paragraph on page 4 under the title Discussion in the article,

   the link is given below.

   http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/content/24/5/446.full.pdf

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