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The Impact of Breath Exercise Training on Postoperative Pain, Anxiety, and Nausea-Vomiting in General Surgery Patients

NCT06546514 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 149

Last updated 2024-08-09

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Summary

This study was conducted to determine the effect of breath exercise on post-operative anxiety level, pain, and nausea-vomiting after general surgery. This was a randomized, controlled experimental study. The sample comprised 149 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy and hernia (control:73; experimental:76). One day before the operation, the participants in the experimental group were given breathing exercise training, and they were applied 5 times a day for 10 repetitions until the 30th day after the operation.

Conditions

  • Postoperative Pain, Acute
  • Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
  • Patient Relations, Nurse

Interventions

OTHER

Breath Exercise

It was provided by the researcher that the patients performed 5 repetitions of 10 breathing exercises every 3 hours a day, between 09:00am and 21:00pm, 1 day before the surgery, on the day of surgery and on the first day after surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ataturk University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gamze BULUT ÖZLÜ · Ataturk Unıversty

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-01
Primary Completion
2022-11-01
Completion
2024-08-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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