The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of foot bath therapy on practicum nursing students'
fatigue and lower extremities edema. A quisi-experimental with non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest
design was implemented. The data were collected from October to November 2014, and a total of 34
practicum nursing students in D Metropolitan City participated in the study. The participants were randomly
selected and assigned to two groups: experimental group(17 students) and control group(17 students). The
experimental group received foot bath in which feet were soaked in 40℃water and immersed to ankle line
for 20 minutes per a day for 5times. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, χ2 test, ANCOVA and
paired t-test using the 21.0 Program. There were significant decrease in fatigue and lower extremities
edema between pre and post foot bath therapy. The findings this study show that foot bath had the effect in decreasing fatigue and lower extremities edema among practicum nursing students. Foot bath therapy,
therefore, is suggested ad a comport and easy to use method in practicum nursing students' fatigue and
lower extremities edema.