The Effect of Comedy Film on Preoperative Anxiety and Postoperative Pain Level.

Gurkan KAPIKIRAN

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Surgery; Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: comedy movie group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05424991

2021/179

Details and patient eligibility

About

When we look at the literature, studies examining the effect of having patients watch comedy films on anxiety and pain are limited. However, it was observed that the anxiety and pain levels of oncology patients who underwent surgery decreased by watching comedy movies. Therefore, in order to use the healing effects of humor, our study was planned to determine the effect of watching comedy films on the level of anxiety and postoperative pain in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.

Full description

Whether it is major surgery or minor surgery, preoperative anxiety is observed in all patients in the preoperative period. A high level of anxiety causes many physiological and psychological problems in the body and causes an increase in sympathetic and endocrine system stimuli. Among the physiological and psychological problems seen, many conditions such as recovery time, quality of life, health care expenditures, vital signs and well-being are negatively affected. Therefore, many applications can be used to reduce the level of anxiety before surgery. With humor, which is one of them, the anxiety levels of the patients can be reduced and they can manage their stress management better. In addition to reducing the level of anxiety before the operation, the experience of post-operative pain is one of the important problems experienced by the patients. Pain complaints are a general problem in the postoperative period in abdominal surgeries. The usefulness of using supportive complementary and alternative therapies in addition to pharmacological treatments in postoperative pain management is emphasized in the literature. Among these non-pharmacological treatments, it is stated that humor and laughter increase tolerance to pain and have positive effects on mood. Humor and laughter not only increase pain tolerance, but also reduce fear, anxiety and anger, and help lower the level of anxiety. Therefore, in order to use the healing effects of humor, our study was planned to determine the effect of watching comedy films on the level of anxiety and postoperative pain in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.

Enrollment: 176 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years and over,
• Defining the postoperative pain intensity of 4 and above,
• No cognitive problem
• Willing to participate in the research
• Having had Abdominal Surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• with a communication barrier,
• Having an uncontrollable psychiatric disorder,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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176 participants in 2 patient groups

comedy movie group

Experimental group

Description:

The anxiety level of the patients in the experimental group was measured. Afterwards, each patient watched a comedy movie for 25 minutes. Anxiety levels were re-measured 25 minutes after watching the comedy movie. Pain levels were measured after the anesthesia effect disappeared in the postoperative period. Afterwards, each patient watched a comedy movie for 25 minutes. Pain levels were re-measured 25 minutes after watching the comedy movie.

Treatment:

Behavioral: comedy movie group

No treatment group

No Intervention group

Description:

In the follow-up of the patient, no application was made other than clinical protocols. Anxiety scale was filled preoperatively, and anxiety level was evaluated again 25 minutes later. Pain level was evaluated in the postoperative period. Pain levels were evaluated again at the end of the same period with the experimental group without any intervention.