Healthy, Nursing Caries
Conditions
Keywords
Patient, Postoperative, Pain, Visual Analogue Scale, Guided Imagery
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.
Interventions
OTHERguided 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 (
Sponsors
Dicle University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)
Intervention 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.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A mean total score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) | first week | A mean total score on the VAS of four and above indicates postoperative pain. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed