Childbirth is one of the challenging occasions in a woman's life. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the foot reflexology and back massage in improving the quality of sleep among the post caesarean mothers. A true experimental-repeated measures design with simple random sampling technique was used to study the control and experimental groups. The quality of sleep was assessed on 120 post caesarean mothers with 40 samples in each group of control, back massage and foot reflexology. Modified Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index Scale was used to assess the quality of sleep. After the pretest, back massage and foot reflexology was given for three consecutive days in the evening for the respective group. The results revealed that the day 2, day 3, and day 4 of back massage and foot reflexology quality of sleep were significantly different from the control day 2, day 3 and day 4 except on day 1. There is an improvement in the quality of sleep from day 1 to day 4. When comparing the pretest and the posttests, the quality of sleep of the control, back massage and foot reflexology day 3, day 4 (posttests) were highly significantly different from control, back massage and foot reflexology day 1 except on day 2. The improvement in the foot reflexology and back massage was better than the control group. The chi square of control and back massage were 13.132, 41.645 whereas chi square of foot reflexology was 101.234. Hence the foot reflexology was better in improving quality of sleep than back massage.
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