The Effect of Olfactory Mental Imagery and Cardiovascular Surgery

Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Vital Signs; Symptoms and Signs; Anxiety State

Treatments: Behavioral: Mental Imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06221436

SBUISTANBUL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effect of olfactory mental imagery on physiological parameters, anxiety and symptoms after cardiovascular surgery.

This study was planned to be conducted as a prospective randomized controlled study in the Cardiovascular Surgery service of Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital. The universe of the research; It will consist of patients who are hospitalized in the cardiovascular surgery service and who have undergone cardiovascular surgery. The sample will consist of a total of 90 patients hospitalized in the Cardiovascular Surgery service of the same hospital and meeting the inclusion criteria for the study.

Patient Diagnosis Form, Physiological Parameters Monitoring Form, State Anxiety Inventory and Cardiac Surgery Symptom Inventory will be used to collect data. Data will be collected on days 1, 2, 3 and 4 after surgery. In the study, patients will be divided into two groups: intervention (n = 45) and control (n = 45). The intervention group will perform breathing exercises with the olfactory mental imagery technique.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective surgery is planned,
• There is no smell problem,
• No loss of visual and auditory functions,
• No previous hospital history,
• No serious head trauma or nasal injury,
• No known psychiatric disease or history of anxiolytic drug use,
• Olfactory, capable of mental imagery

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of decreased level of consciousness,
• Having drainage over 200 ml per hour,
• Ejection fraction less than 30 percent,
• People with lung disease such as atelectasis and pneumonia,
• Systolic blood pressure is below 90 mmHg,
• Patients whose pain control cannot be achieved

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Mental Imagery

Experimental group

Description:

The Mental Imaging group will receive olfactory mental imagery technique and vagus breathing therapy for 1 hour in the morning and evening on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th days after surgery. In addition, the standard care (breathing exercises with Triflo, early walking, frequent position changes in bed) and treatment plan, which are the standard protocol of the Cardiovascular Surgery Service, will be continued by the clinic nurse and physician.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mental Imagery

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group was given no intervention other than standard care (breathing exercise with Triflo, early ambulation, frequent position changes in bed) and treatment, which is the standard protocol of the Cardiovascular Surgery Service, by the clinic nurse and physician on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th days after surgery. Will not be implemented.