AbstractResearchers performed foot baths and massages for residual schizophrenia patients to gauge the effects on psychiatric symptoms. Subjects were six residual schizophrenia patients hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. Three times a week for 4weeks, they received an 8-minute effleurage massage to their legs after a 10-minute foot bath. The effect of physiological relaxation was identified by a significant decline in heart rate in all cases. The results of the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale are as follows: a mean score of 29.0 was measured before treatment, which lowered to 21.5 after treatment, indicating that foot care improved their negative symptoms (p<0 .05="" 10.5="" 34.0="" after="" and="" before="" care="" foot="" he="" improvement="" in="" increased="" indicating="" intervention="" life="" of="" p="" quality="" results="" scale="" span="" the="" their="" to="" were="">
The results of the two measurements indicate that foot baths and massages were effective in improving psychiatric symptoms.
