Effects of Comedy Therapy on Anxiety and Vital Signs in Transplant Recipients

Bitlis Eren University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Liver Transplant; Complications; Care Acceptor, Health; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: comedy therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06919588

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of watching excerpts from classical Turkish comedy films on pre-transplant anxiety levels and vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

H1-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients.

H1-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films reduces preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients.

H2-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

H2-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has a positive effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

Full description

Intervention Group:

A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. Patients will be shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by researchers before transplant surgery. After the intervention, vital signs will be checked as a post-test and a state anxiety scale will be applied. A quiet and calm environment will be provided in the patient room while patients are shown the comedy films.

Control Group:

A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. No intervention will be made to the control group patients outside of the clinical protocol. After a certain waiting period (average of 30 minutes), the patients' vital signs will be checked and the state anxiety scale will be applied again.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being over 18 years of age,
• Being a liver transplant recipient,
• Data obtained before transplantation,
• Not having any visual or auditory problems.

Exclusion criteria

• Being under 18 years of age,
• Having any visual/auditory problems,
• Not accepting to participate in the study/wanting to leave,
• Not providing hemodynamic instability (sudden change in vital signs, etc.)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

comedy therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Before transplant surgery, a patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test, and vital signs will be checked. Patients will be shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by researchers before transplant surgery. After the intervention, vital signs will be checked as a post-test, and a state anxiety scale will be applied. While patients are shown the comedy films, a quiet and calm environment will be provided in the patient room.

Treatment:

Behavioral: comedy therapy

standard of care

No Intervention group

Description:

Before transplant surgery, a patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test, and vital signs will be checked. No intervention will be made to the control group patients outside of the clinical protocol. After a certain waiting period (average of 30 minutes), the patients' vital signs will be checked and the state anxiety scale will be applied again.