Effects of Benson Relaxation Exercise on Anxiety Level and Sleep Quality in Adolescents (BRE)

Uskudar University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Relaxation Program

Sleep Quality

Anxiety

Psychiatric Hospitalization

Treatments

Other: Ongoing treatment

Other: Benson Relaxation Exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06661304

61351342/020-423

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Benson relaxation exercise applied to children and adolescents receiving inpatient treatment in a psychiatric clinic on anxiety levels and sleep quality.

Design: The study is a randomized controlled trial with a pretest-posttest control group.

Method: The study will be conducted in a private psychiatric hospital in Turkey between October 2024 and June 2025. When hospital records were examined, it was determined that 100 patients received inpatient treatment in the last year. Therefore, the universe of the study consisted of 100 patients. The effect of some instructions in the Benson relaxation exercise on delusions and hallucinations is unknown. Therefore, psychosis and schizophrenia patients with delusions and hallucinations will be excluded from the scope of the study. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The study will be terminated when a total of 60 patients are reached, 30 in the intervention and 30 in the control group. Benson relaxation exercise will be applied to the patients in the intervention group. No application will be made to the patients in the control group. Research data will be collected with the "State-Trait Anxiety Scale" and "Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index".

Hypotheses:

H1: The anxiety level of patients who applied Benson relaxation exercise is lower than the patients who did not.

H2: The sleep quality of patients who applied Benson relaxation exercise is better than the patients who did not.

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

14 to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being treated in the child and adolescent clinic at the hospital where the study was conducted
Being between the ages of 14-18
Not diagnosed with psychotic disorder or schizophrenia
Scoring between 20 and 59 on the STAI I-II scale
Scoring 5 and above on the PSQI scale
Being willing to participate in the study
Parents giving verbal consent for participation in the study and signing the written voluntary consent form

Exclusion criteria

Not receiving treatment in the child-adolescent clinic at the hospital where the study was conducted
Not being between the ages of 14-18
Being diagnosed with psychotic disorder and schizophrenia
Not receiving a score between 20-59 on the STAI I-II scale
Receiving a score below 5 on the PSQI scale
Not being willing to participate in the study
The parent not giving verbal consent for participation in the study and not signing the written voluntary consent form