The Effects of Guided Imagery on Postoperative Pain Management

NCT04610151 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: LZA2018/5
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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

Conditions

Healthy; Nursing Caries

Keywords

Patient; Postoperative; Pain; Visual Analogue Scale; Guided Imagery

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• A mean total score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)

  A mean total score on the VAS of four and above indicates postoperative pain.

  first week

Study Arms (2)

Guided Imagery

EXPERIMENTAL

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.

Other: guided imagery

No-Reflexology Application , control group.

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention was applied on the control group patients.

Interventions

guided imagery 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 (

Guided Imagery

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Adult patients at and over the age of 18
• Patients who were able to speak Turkish
• Patients who received spinal anesthesia

You may not qualify if:

• Patients who had not previously used guided imagery
• Patients any disease that could cause pain outside the surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dicle University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Leyla ZENGİN AYDIN

Diyarbakır, Sur, 21280, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pain

Interventions

Imagery, Psychotherapy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mind-Body Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: CARE PROVIDER
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Model Details: 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.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 26, 2020
• First Posted: October 30, 2020
• Study Start: April 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2018
• Study Completion: September 30, 2018
• Last Updated: October 30, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-10

Locations

TU (1)