Association With Spinal Needle-puncture Pain and Menstrual Phase

Konya Meram State Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05481255

spinal needle-puncture pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

This prospective observational study aimed to evaluate the relationship between menstrual phase cycles and spinal needle-puncture pain during spinal anesthesia in female patients of reproductive age.

Full description

Before the spinal anesthesia procedure, the anxiety and depression levels of the patients will be evaluated with the 14-scale 'hospital anxiety and depression scale.' The spinal anesthesia procedure will be performed by the anesthesiologist responsible for the patient. At the end of the spinal anesthesia procedure, a researcher with no knowledge of the patient's menstrual phase information will ask rate the spinal needle-puncture pain felt during spinal anesthesia with a numerical rating scale (NRS), which is graded from 1 to 10 (0: no pain, 10: very severe pain).

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female volunteers of reproductive age have had a regular menstrual cycle for at least six months

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• ASA physical status III and IV
• Patients with psychiatric disorders,
• Emergency surgeries
• Mentally retarded patients,
• Patients with multiple spinal anesthesia trials
• Patients with previous spinal surgery experience