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The Effects of Guided Imagery on Postoperative Pain Management

NCT ID: NCT04610151

Last Updated: 2020-10-30

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-04-01

Study Completion Date

2018-09-30

Brief Summary

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This study was conducted to determine the effects of guided imagery on postoperative pain management.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Healthy Nursing Caries

Keywords

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Patient Postoperative Pain Visual Analogue Scale Guided Imagery

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

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.
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

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Guided Imagery

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.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

guided imagery

Intervention Type OTHER

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 (

No-Reflexology Application , control group.

No intervention was applied on the control group patients.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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guided imagery

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 (

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Dicle University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Leyla ZENGİN AYDIN

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Leyla ZENGİN AYDIN

Diyarbakır, Sur, Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

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LZA2018/5

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id