The Effect of Expressive Touch and Music Applied After Lumbar Disc Hernia Surgery. (NIRS)

Inonu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lumbar Disc Herniation

Treatments: Other: Ekspressive touch; Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04765774

InonuUniversity

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients undergoing lumbar hernia surgery will be divided into expressive touch, music and control groups. Pre-test and post-test pain levels, vital signs, and NIRS values of the patients will be measured.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Agreeing to participate in the research,
• General anesthesia applied,
• Patients with the same type of treatment protocol,
• Verbal pain score with at least 4,
• Patients with a Ramsay sedation Scale score of 3 and below,
• Without a chronic disease,
• Without a disease (AVM, blockage of brain vessels, etc.) that will affect brain oxygenation,
• Who has not been diagnosed with any psychiatric illness
• No hearing and perception problems,
• No loss of sensation in upper extremity according to light touch test,
• Any complications after surgery are undeveloped

Exclusion criteria

• Do not meet the inclusion criteria,
• Interrupting the research,
• Patients with incomplete answers to questions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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132 participants in 3 patient groups

The Effect of Expressive Touch Applied After Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery

Experimental group

Description:

Expressive touch reduces pain and keeps vital signs and NIRS values within normal limits by touching the arms and hands of the patients through energy transfer.

Treatment:

Other: Ekspressive touch

The Effect of Music Applied After Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery

Experimental group

Description:

Patients listening to music are distracted and their pain is reduced, vital signs and NIRS values are kept within normal limits.

Treatment:

Other: Music

Pain, vital signs and NIRS values of patients after lumbar disc hernia surgery

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention is applied to the patients in this group and the effectiveness of the interventions used on the patients in the other group is measured.