Effect of Z Technıque on Pain, Comfort, Symptoms in Ummunotherapy Areas

Kafkas University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Immunotherapy

Treatments: Behavioral: experimental group; Other: Pre-post test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05657262

81829502.903/94

Details and patient eligibility

About

An allergy is an abnormal response of the immune system to a generally harmless antigen. Pollens in the air play an important role in the formation of respiratory allergies and can be a trigger for the development of allergies (Won, 2022). By providing relaxation by nurses and taking measures to ensure the continuity of relaxation; Maintaining the well-being of the individual, family or society is possible with the comfort theory (Kolcaba and Kolcaba, 1991; Kolcaba, 1994). Although subcutaneous immunotherapy is performed in the presence of specialist physicians and trained nurses, some local side effects may develop after injection. One of the local side effects is pain, swelling and redness at the injection site (Arslan and Caliskaner, 2022).

The aim of this study; The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the treatment with the Z technique on allergy patients receiving immunotherapy on comfort, pain and adverse symptoms using a randomized controlled experimental method.

The hypotheses of the study H0: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy has no effect on comfort levels, pain and adverse symptoms H1: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Comfort Levels H2: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Pain Levels H3: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Undesirable Symptoms

Full description

An allergy is an abnormal response of the immune system to a generally harmless antigen. Pollens in the air play an important role in the formation of respiratory allergies and can be a trigger for the development of allergies (Won, 2022). By providing relaxation by nurses and taking measures to ensure the continuity of relaxation; Maintaining the well-being of the individual, family or society is possible with the comfort theory (Kolcaba and Kolcaba, 1991; Kolcaba, 1994). Although subcutaneous immunotherapy is performed in the presence of specialist physicians and trained nurses, some local side effects may develop after injection. One of the local side effects is pain, swelling and redness at the injection site (Arslan and Caliskaner, 2022).

The aim of this study; The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the treatment with the Z technique on allergy patients receiving immunotherapy on comfort, pain and adverse symptoms using a randomized controlled experimental method.

The hypotheses of the study H0: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy has no effect on comfort levels, pain and adverse symptoms H1: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Comfort Levels H2: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Pain Levels H3: Treatment with Z Technique for Allergy Patients Receiving Immunotherapy Has an Effect on Undesirable Symptoms The research is a pre-post-test two-group randomized controlled study in experimental design.

The research population consists of 104 patients who received allergy treatment in Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital in the last year. In this study, "G. In the calculation made using the "Power-3.1.9.2" program and using a similar study at the sample level at 80% confidence level (yilmaz et al., 2016), a total of 60 individuals, 30 of which were experimental and 30 of which were control, was determined.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

To be receiving immunotherapy treatment at Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, be between the ages of 18-65, Volunteering to participate in the research,

Exclusion criteria

Not wanting to participate in the research voluntarily The state of moving the individual to a different country for any reason The end of the immunotherapy treatment period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The experiment group will be applied with the Z technique. While applying the medicine with the Z technique, the tissue will be lifted with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand and pulled to the right, and the medicine will be slowly applied after the injector needle enters the tissue. When the application is finished, first the injector will be withdrawn, then the tissue will be released and the tissues will be restored (Altun, 2018).

Treatment:

Other: Pre-post test

Behavioral: experimental group

Control group

Other group

Description:

In the control group, the vaccine will be administered slowly with the standard technique.

Treatment:

Other: Pre-post test