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Effects of Virtual Glasses, Stress Ball and Music Intervention on Pain, Anxiety and Comfort in Patients Undergoing Inguinal Hernia Surgery

Effects of Virtual Glasses, Stress Ball and Music Intervention on Pain, Anxiety and Comfort in Patients Undergoing Inguinal Hernia Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Not yet recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06964984
Enrollment
120
Registered
2025-05-11
Start date
2025-06-05
Completion date
2025-08-01
Last updated
2025-05-11

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Conditions

Anxiety, Inguinal Hernia, Pain

Keywords

inguinal hernia,virtual reality,stress ball,music therapy

Brief summary

Although it changes with age, due to its high incidence and prevalence, inguinal hernia is one of the most commonly performed surgeries by general surgeons. Pain, anxiety and changes in comfort levels in patients after inguinal hernia repair surgery negatively affect the patient's recovery after surgery. One of the goals of nursing care practices in the perioperative period, especially in patients undergoing surgery, is to provide and maintain patient comfort. Today, the concept of comfort is a part of quality nursing care, allowing patients to be comfortable, carefree, recover more quickly and cope better with disease stress. Using non-pharmacological methods in pain management reduces the use of pharmacological methods, increases the patient's comfort level, reduces stress and anxiety, increases the individual's sense of control over their own health and increases physical function and daily life activities. Virtual reality, music therapy, stress ball are used in various areas of clinical medical care as a way to distract attention and relieve pain.

Detailed description

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of distraction methods such as virtual reality, music therapy and stress ball applications on pain, anxiety and comfort levels in patients undergoing inguinal hernia surgery.

Interventions

OTHERMusic intervention

The patient will be asked to choose their favorite music. The playlist will include ten songs from each music group (pop, Turkish classical music, local folk songs and religious music), a total of 50 songs. The options will be shown to the patient via the phone (Apple/ MU783TU/A) and the music they want will be added to the playlist. The selected music will be listened to for 15 minutes before the surgery.

Stress balls will be given to the patient in both palms, they will be asked to count from one to five and squeeze twice. The patient will be shown and made to use the stress balls for 15 minutes before the surgery. When the 15 minutes are up, the patient will be informed by the nurse and the patient will be asked to release the balls.

OTHERVirtual Reality Glasses

The patient will be shown a video of a nature walk by the nurse providing nursing care to the patient. The patients will be shown a video with virtual reality glasses for 15 minutes before the surgery.

Sponsors

Cagla Toprak
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Between the ages of 18-70 Inguinal surgery will be performed, * No communication problems, can speak Turkish, * No psychiatric illness or mental perception problems, * No vision, hearing and perception problems, * No physical problems in squeezing a stress ball,

Exclusion criteria

* • Any postoperative complications, * Patients who do not agree to participate in the study, * Patients using anxiolytic drugs

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
comfort10 minutes before surgery stress.t was designed by researchers similar to the use of Visual Analog Scale (VAS). VAS is used to make measurable some values that cannot be measured numerically, which are evaluated by individuals by marking on a horizontal or vertical line of 10 cm or 100 mm, one end of which indicates that the individual is very good and the other end indicates that the individual is very bad.
pain assessment10 minutes before surgery painIt was designed by researchers similar to the use of Visual Analog Scale (VAS). VAS is used to make measurable some values that cannot be measured numerically, which are evaluated by individuals by marking on a horizontal or vertical line of 10 cm or 100 mm, one end of which indicates that the individual is very good and the other end indicates that the individual is very bad.
anxiety10 minutes after surgeryThis scale consists of two parts: STAI-I and STAI-II. The scale consists of 20 items. Items 1-20 on the scale measure anxiety in four options. Trait anxiety scores were calculated by adding the unchanging number 35 for the trait anxiety scale to the obtained result. The lowest score on the scale is 20, the highest score is 80. Score Status Anxiety level; 0-19 points indicate no anxiety, 20-39 points indicate mild anxiety, 40-59 points indicate moderate anxiety, 60-79 points indicate severe anxiety, 80 and above indicate panic level anxiety. As the score increases, the anxiety level also increases.
pain assesmentWill be evaluated at 10 minutes and 24 hours after surgeryIt was designed by researchers similar to the use of Visual Analog Scale (VAS). VAS is used to make measurable some values that cannot be measured numerically, which are evaluated by individuals by marking on a horizontal or vertical line of 10 cm or 100 mm, one end of which indicates that the individual is very good and the other end indicates that the individual is very bad.

Contacts

Primary Contactçağla toprak
caykinn@gmail.com532 799 78 14

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026