The Effect of Progressive Relaxation Exercises on Bariatric Surgery Period

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of the progressive relaxation exercises in perioperative bariatric surgery patient care. The investigators know that the preoperative anxiety is an important factor that affects acute postoperative pain experience. Additionally, the investigators know that there is a relationship between preoperative anxiety and moderate to severe pain in the first 12 hours postoperatively, and this is also true for patients undergoing bariatric surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does preoperative anxiety level of patient who will undergo bariatric surgery and who are applied progressive relaxation exercises is lower than those who did not apply exercise?
* Does postoperative pain level of patient who underwent bariatric surgery and applied progressive relaxation exercises was lower than patients who did not apply exercise?

Participants will be randomly split into two groups and one of the groups of participants will learn how to do progressive relaxation exercises preoperatively and the other group will learn nothing. Then at the time of the surgery, all participants will fill a survey preoperatively to analyze participants' anxiety level in each group and the investigators will collect data about participants' pain level postoperatively.

Researchers will compare these data whether there is an effect of the progressive relaxation exercises on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain or not.

Conditions

• Obesity, Morbid
• Bariatric Surgery Candidate
• Anxiety
• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Progressive relaxation exercises

Training booklet and CD as a guide on the implementation of Progressive Relaxation Exercises prepared by the Turkish Psychological Association; muscle relaxation exercises, rhythmic breathing and music recital. In the first 10 minutes of this three-part CD, the definition and purpose of deep relaxation and the practices to be considered during exercise are explained. In the second part of 30 minutes; relaxation exercises are explained with the sound of the stream and verbal instructions. The third part, consisting of 30 minutes; it contains only relaxation music without instructions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Atlas University

  collaborator OTHER

• Istanbul Medeniyet University

  collaborator OTHER

• Başakşehir Çam & Sakura City Hospital

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• İsmail Çalıkoğlu, M.D. · Başakşehir Çam & Sakura Şehir Hospital

• İsmail Çalıkoğlu · Başakşehir Çam & Sakura Şehir Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-01-15

Primary Completion

2023-11-15

Completion

2023-12-15

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations