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Primary Purpose
Healthy, Nursing Caries
Status
Completed
Phase
Not Applicable
Locations
Turkey
Study Type
Interventional
Intervention
guided imagery
Sponsored by
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Healthy focused on measuring Patient, Postoperative, Pain, Visual Analogue Scale, Guided Imagery
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients at and over the age of 18
- Patients who were able to speak Turkish
- Patients who received spinal anesthesia
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who had not previously used guided imagery
- Patients any disease that could cause pain outside the surgery
Sites / Locations
- Leyla ZENGİN AYDIN
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm Type
Experimental
No Intervention
Arm Label
Guided Imagery
No-Reflexology Application , control group.
Arm Description
Guided Imagery Intervention:The pretest data of the patients with a pain score of 4 or higher according to VAS were collected. Afterwards, the experiment group patients were applied guided imagery.
No intervention was applied on the control group patients.
Outcomes
Primary Outcome Measures
A mean total score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
A mean total score on the VAS of four and above indicates postoperative pain.
Secondary Outcome Measures
Full Information
1. Study Identification
Unique Protocol Identification Number
NCT04610151
Brief Title
The Effects of Guided Imagery on Postoperative Pain Management
Official Title
The Effects of Guided Imagery on Postoperative Pain Management: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study Type
Interventional
2. Study Status
Record Verification Date
October 2020
Overall Recruitment Status
Completed
Study Start Date
April 1, 2018 (Actual)
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2018 (Actual)
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2018 (Actual)
3. Sponsor/Collaborators
Responsible Party, by Official Title
Principal Investigator
Name of the Sponsor
Dicle University
4. Oversight
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product
No
Data Monitoring Committee
No
5. Study Description
Brief Summary
This study was conducted to determine the effects of guided imagery on postoperative pain management.
Detailed Description
The sample of the study consisted of 60 patients (30 in the experiment and 30 in the control groups) undergoing lower extremity operations at the orthopedics clinics of the Kahramanmaras Necip Fazil City Hospital. The study was conducted between April and September 2018.
6. Conditions and Keywords
Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
Healthy, Nursing Caries
Keywords
Patient, Postoperative, Pain, Visual Analogue Scale, Guided Imagery
7. Study Design
Primary Purpose
Supportive Care
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Interventional Study Model
Crossover Assignment
Model Description
The study was conducted with patients undergoing lower extremity operations between April 2018 and May 2019 at the Necip Fazıl City Hospital (Kahramanmaraş, Turkey) as a pretest-posttest study with a quasi-experimental design and a control group.
Masking
Care Provider
Allocation
Randomized
Enrollment
60 (Actual)
8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions
Arm Title
Guided Imagery
Arm Type
Experimental
Arm Description
Guided Imagery Intervention:The pretest data of the patients with a pain score of 4 or higher according to VAS were collected. Afterwards, the experiment group patients were applied guided imagery.
Arm Title
No-Reflexology Application , control group.
Arm Type
No Intervention
Arm Description
No intervention was applied on the control group patients.
Intervention Type
Other
Intervention Name(s)
guided imagery
Intervention Description
Guided Imagery CD: A guided imagery CD was prepared by a web designer with the recommendations of the researcher to include relaxing, soft and slow-paced, mixed nature sounds and photographs towards reducing pain in lower extremity surgical operation patients. The directives used for guidance, the audio recordings created as a result of literature review and the video lasted for 13 minutes (
Primary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
A mean total score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
Description
A mean total score on the VAS of four and above indicates postoperative pain.
Time Frame
first week
10. Eligibility
Sex
All
Minimum Age & Unit of Time
18 Years
Maximum Age & Unit of Time
65 Years
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Adult patients at and over the age of 18
Patients who were able to speak Turkish
Patients who received spinal anesthesia
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who had not previously used guided imagery
Patients any disease that could cause pain outside the surgery
Facility Information:
Facility Name
Leyla ZENGİN AYDIN
City
Diyarbakır
State/Province
Sur
ZIP/Postal Code
21280
Country
Turkey
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