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Virtual Reality and Acupressure Applications; Effect on Pain, Anxiety, Vital Signs and Comfort

NCT05131620 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 153

Last updated 2023-02-22

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Summary

Coronary angiography (CAG) is an invasive method for imaging the coronary arteries. The femoral artery is frequently used during CAG and patients feel pain and anxiety during removal of the catheters placed in the femoral region. These disorders also negatively affect the vital signs and comfort levels of patients.

Different methods are used in direct proportion to the development of technology for relieving anxiety and pain caused by invasive surgical procedures in patients. These methods include virtual reality (VR) applications. Innovative, up-to-date and original, virtual reality is the fusion of fiction and technology with reality and imagination. These programs; It is stated that in addition to reducing the patient's anxiety and pain, it makes them feel safe, increases their comfort, care satisfaction and positively affects their participation in care.

Acupressure is one of the most widely used non-pharmacological methods to reduce pain and anxiety, and one of the applications included in the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). Applications made with manipulations such as pressure and rubbing on certain points on the meridians where energy flow takes place in the body are called acupressure. It has been determined that acupressure applications in different areas reduce pain and anxiety and positively affect vital signs and patient comfort.

Although there are studies in the literature in which different non-pharmacological methods are applied to reduce pain and anxiety caused by catheter extraction after CAG, positively affect vital signs, and increase the level of comfort, no research has been found in which acupressure method and virtual reality methods developed with today's technology are applied together. In this study, it was planned to reduce the pain and anxiety of the patients, to observe the effects on vital signs, and to increase their comfort levels, with acupressure application and virtual reality methods, which have not been applied non-pharmacologically until now, in patients who underwent CAG.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Virtual Reality

It is planned that VR glasses are put on 5-10 minutes before the procedure and continued throughout the procedure, and the total monitoring time will continue for 30 minutes.

PROCEDURE

Acupressure

Acupressure will be applied 10 minutes before catheter extraction after CAG.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cukurova University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
88 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-25
Primary Completion
2021-08-25
Completion
2022-09-05

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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