A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CRYOTHERAPY ON PAIN PERCEPTION AMONG HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS IN SELECTED HOSPITALS ,CHITRADURGA

Objectives: 1. To assess the pre test and post test level of pain perception among hemodialysis patients. 2. To determin the effectiveness of Cryotherapy on level of pain perception among hemodialysis patients. Methodology: A pre experimental one group pre test and post test design and a quatitative research approach was carried out on 30 hemodialysis patients selected by convenient sampling technique to test the effectiveness of structured awareness programme. the data was collected by using structured questionnaire consists 10 items Results: the resent study evaluates and found that demographic variables majesty 50 of them were in the age group of 61 years and above ,majority 37% of them were secondary and above in the education, majority 40 of them house wife, majority 66.7 of Hindu religion, majority 47% of family income, majority 63 of mixed diet. Conclusion: the data were analysed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics, the result of the study indicate that focus of this study was to explore the level of pain perception of hemodialysis patients ,analysis data shows highly significance difference found between pre-test and post- test knowledge score at the level of 0.05 the hypothesis is proved and accepted.