Does Minimally Invasive Surgery Reduce Anxiety?

Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Pediatric Research and Training Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Procedure: total abdominal hysterectomy(TAH); Behavioral: Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI ); Procedure: total laparoscopic hysterectomy(TLH)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02938845

025

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to identify factors that may contribute to anxiety of patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy(TAH) or total laparoscopic hysterectomy(TLH) before and after the operation. Thus, we aimed to learn whether anxiety levels change according to the type of hysterectomy.

Full description

Hysterectomy is the most common gynecological procedure worldwide. . There has been a increasing interest towards to more minimally invasive procedures in the past decade. Hysterectomy operation anxiety is a complex phenomenon affected by various parameters. Patients' anxiety may be affected by their age, gender, educational status,type of operation and personality. Each patient's anxiety was measured using Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory immediately before, immediately after the operation.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

undergone hysterectomies for benign reasons.

Exclusion criteria

malignancy, additional operation beside hysterectomy( such as salpingo-oophorectomy), history of two or more previous caesarean sections, history of previous abdominal surgery, autoimmune disease, coagulation disorders, with known systemic or psychiatric disease, those receiving any regular sedative medication at the time of the procedure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

total laparoscopic hysterectomy(TLH)

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient's anxiety was measured using Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory immediately before, immediately after the operation.

Treatment:

Procedure: total laparoscopic hysterectomy(TLH)

Behavioral: Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI )

total abdominal hysterectomy(TAH)

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient's anxiety was measured using Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory immediately before, immediately after the operation.

Treatment:

Procedure: total abdominal hysterectomy(TAH)

Behavioral: Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI )