Effect of Breathing Exercise on Pain and Quality of Recovery in After Transplantation Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT ID: NCT07067580

Last Updated: 2025-12-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-04-30

Brief Summary

The researchers will fill out the "Patient Introduction Form" for the patients who agreed to participate in the study after obtaining permission from the experimental group with the "Informed Consent Form" the day before the surgery. The breathing exercises will be taught and monitored by the researchers, and the researcher who will implement them is a nurse in the general surgery department. The experimental group will be trained on breathing exercises by the researcher the day before the surgery. The patients will be provided with 1 set (4 breaths) per hour of breathing exercises after the surgery. The patient's vital signs will be monitored before and after the breathing exercise. Patients will not have difficulty during the breathing exercise, and they will be provided with gradual interventions. Pain status will be monitored at 0, 2, 6, 12 and 24 hours during the 24-hour hospital stay. The recovery quality scale will be applied on the 1st and 3rd day after surgery. In the control group, after obtaining permission with the "Informed Consent Form" the day before the surgery, the patients who agreed to participate in the study will fill out the "Patient Introduction Form" by the researchers, and their pain status will be monitored at 0, 2, 6, 12 and 24 hours during the 24-hour hospital stay after the surgery. The recovery quality scale will be applied on the 1st and 3rd day after surgery. No intervention will be made to the patients in the control group, and they will be provided with routine nursing care provided in the hospital.

Conditions

Transplantation; Pain Management; Quality of Recovery 40

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Experimental

After obtaining permission from the experimental group with the "Informed Consent Form" the day before the surgery, the patients who agree to participate in the study will fill out the "Patient Introduction Form" by the researchers. The respiratory exercises will be taught and monitored by the researchers, and the researcher who will perform them works as a nurse in the general surgery department. The experimental group will be trained on respiratory exercises by the researcher the day before the surgery. The patients will be asked to perform the post-operative respiratory exercises as 1 set (4 breaths) per hour. The patient's vital signs will be monitored before and after the respiratory exercise. Patients will not have difficulty during the respiratory exercise, they will be asked to do it gradually. Pain conditions will be monitored at 0, 2, 6, 12 and 24 hours during the 24-hour hospital stay. The recovery quality scale will be applied on the 1st and 3rd days after the surgery.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

respiratory exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

The experimental group will be trained on respiratory exercises by the researcher the day before the surgery. The patients will be asked to perform the post-operative respiratory exercises as 1 set (4 breaths) per hour. The patient's vital signs will be monitored before and after the respiratory exercise. Patients will not have difficulty during the respiratory exercise, they will be asked to do it gradually.

Control

In the control group, after obtaining permission with the "Informed Consent Form" the day before the surgery, the patients who agreed to participate in the study will fill out the "Patient Introduction Form" by the researchers, and their pain status will be monitored at 0, 2, 6, 12 and 24 hours during the 24-hour hospital stay after the surgery. The quality of recovery scale will be applied on the 1st and 3rd days after the surgery. No intervention will be made to the patients in the control group, and they will receive routine nursing care provided in the hospital.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

respiratory exercise

The experimental group will be trained on respiratory exercises by the researcher the day before the surgery. The patients will be asked to perform the post-operative respiratory exercises as 1 set (4 breaths) per hour. The patient's vital signs will be monitored before and after the respiratory exercise. Patients will not have difficulty during the respiratory exercise, they will be asked to do it gradually.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients aged 18 and over, 65 and under,
• Those who have had a transplant for the first time,
• Patients who volunteer to participate in the study will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Hemodynamically unstable,
• Those who may experience physical strain during breathing exercises and have a disease that may cause increased intra-abdominal pressure (e.g. bleeding hemorrhoids, hernias of all kinds, persistent cough, severe back pain, heart diseases, high blood pressure, urinary incontinence, epilepsy),
• Those with early complications
• Those with neurological or psychological problems,
• Those who were transferred to the intensive care unit after surgery,
• Emergency and unplanned cases will be excluded from the scope of the research.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Tuba Yılmazer

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Tuba Yilmazer, PhD

Role: CONTACT

tyilmazer@aybu.edu.tr

5079552804

Facility Contacts

Tuba Yılmazer, PhD

Role: primary

tyilmazer@aybu.edu.tr

05079552804

Other Identifiers

transplantationsurgery

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id