The Effect of Cold Therapy on Pain and Anxiety During the Implanted Port Catheter Removal

Yuksek Ihtisas University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Other: cold therapy application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05214703

YuksekIU-ABAHAR-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted as a quasi-experimental study to examine the effect of cold therapy on pain and anxiety during venous port catheter removal.

Full description

Pain and anxiety experienced during diagnosis and treatment in cancer patients affect the physical, psychological, and interpersonal well-being of individuals and affect their lives in all aspects. Nurses play a very important role in pain control. Pain control is very important in terms of ensuring the comfort of patients and increasing their quality of life. In order to provide this control; nurses can use non-pharmacological treatment methods that they can apply independently in pain management. Patients experience procedural pain during insertion and removal of an implantable port catheter, which is one of the painful invasive procedures that are placed under the skin with a small incision, and insertion of a needle into the port catheter. When the literature is examined, it is seen that there are a limited number of studies in which non-pharmacological methods are used in the control of pain and anxiety related to the implantable venous port catheter procedure, and in these studies, distraction, music therapy, and inhaler aromatherapy. However, no study was found in which cold application was used to reduce the pain and anxiety caused by the removal of the port catheter in cancer patients. Therefore, the aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of cold application on procedural pain and anxiety associated with port catheter removal, which is frequently used in the treatment of cancer patients. Cold therapy as an independent nursing intervention in reducing anxiety and pain management during port catheter removal in cancer/oncology patients; can be transferred to clinical practice by oncology nurses, improving the quality of nursing care, ensuring patient safety, and increasing patient satisfaction. In addition, the results of the research may contribute to the literature in terms of increasing evidence-based information on the use of the cold application in procedural pain and anxiety control in cancer patients.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of cancer disease
• 18 years and over
• no analgesic medication before three hours before the catheter removal procedure
• conscious and cooperative
• no communication problems
• no visual no vision problems
• with stable vital signs
• without a diagnosis of anxiety disorder
• volunteer participation

Exclusion criteria

• Body mass index less than 18.5
• receiving Oxaliplatin infusions before venous port catheter removal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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112 participants in 2 patient groups

cold therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Pain scores were measured with a visual analog scale (VAS) before the port catheter was removed from the patients in the experimental group. Before the port catheters were removed, cold application with an ice pack was applied to the patients whose first visual analog scale measurement was made by the researchers. The cold application was terminated an average of 15 minutes after the body temperature decreased by 1 °C.

Treatment:

Other: cold therapy application

no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients in the control group did not receive any intervention before and after port catheter removal.