Intrauterine Insemination and Nursing

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility

Treatments: Behavioral: Therapeutic Touch; Device: Virtual Reality Glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05192330

2021/350

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the effect of virtual reality glasses use and therapeutic touch on pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in women during intrauterine insemination procedure

Full description

Infertility treatment is a stressful and anxious process that begins when couples are diagnosed with infertility. Infertility treatment is a process that requires the active participation of couples against emotional and physical difficulties. In addition to intensive routine and surgical procedures, the treatment process is a period in which couples should be in constant communication with healthcare professionals. In Turkey, it is estimated that 10-20% of the couples are diagnosed with infertility. In the evaluation of infertile couples,Intrauterine Insemination is a simple, safe, and minimally invasive procedure to the process of injecting washed sperm into the uterine cavity close to ovulation. Sperm cells taken from men are injected directly into the uterus and left at a point closer to the fertilization point. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality glasses use and therapeutic touch on pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in women during intrauterine insemination procedure.

This randomized controlled study will conduct at Ondokuz Mayis University Training and Research Hospital, Infertility polyclinic between january 2022 and June 2022.

Volunteer women undergoing Intrauterine Insemination will be include. Participants will randomly assigned to the intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A data collection form including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age, educational status, duration of infertility, previous pregnancies, births, abortion/curettage numbers, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and Visual Analog Scale scores will use for each patient. After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and VAS scoring scale (pain and nursing satisfaction) were applied to both groups by face to face interview during the day giving appointment for Intrauterine Insemination. Immediately after the questionnaires will apply, the nurse gave virtual reality glasses. and glasses will be put on before the process starts and training will be given to continue watching the video while wearing the glasses for 30 minutes. Second group participants the nurse researcher will start the application by taking an appropriate hand of the patient between his hands and hold it for 30 minutes.

Participant in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (virtual reality or therapeutic touch) was performed.The IBM SPSS (Statistical package for the Social Sciences) 23.0 package program was used to evaluate the data obtained in the study.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

being diagnosed with infertility over 18 years, being able to understand, read and write in Turkish, wanting to participate in the study,

Exclusion criteria

not wanting to be included in the study not accepting Therapeutic Touch or Virtual reality glasses not knowing Turkish not wanting to be included in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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96 participants in 3 patient groups

Virtual Reality Glasses

Experimental group

Description:

After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and visual analogue scale(pain and nursing satisfaction) scoring scale will apply to both groups by face to face interview during the day giving appointment for intrauterine insemination. Immediately after the questionnaires were applied, the nurse gave Virtual Reality Glasses for 30 minutes. Glasses will be given put on before the process starts and training will be given to continue watching the video while wearing the glasses.The women include in the Virtual reality application group will be shown a video with a nature view during the procedure. Every woman will be shown the same video.

Treatment:

Device: Virtual Reality Glasses

Therapeutic Touch

Experimental group

Description:

Applied therapeutic touch intervention on their hands for 30 minutes to help patients feel comfortable during the procedure.The researcher started the application by taking an appropriate hand of the patient between his hands and held it for 30 minutes. The researcher's fingers are closed, not clasped, and his hand is placed on the participant's hand. The researcher held her hand steady without touching or rubbing it. In addition, the researcher is not use gloves.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Therapeutic Touch

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (virtual reality or Therapeutic Touch) was performed. Both groups were re-evaluated using the same scales after the intrauterine insemination. Within 5 minutes of completing the procedure, participants will asked to evaluate their pain in order to characterize pain intensity using the visual analogue scale, anxiety scale and satisfaction scale.