The Effect of the Stress Ball Applied Before Colocystectomy Surgery on Patients; Surgical Fear, Anxiety and Comfort.

Akdeniz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear; Cholecystitis; Comfort; Stress

Treatments: Other: Stress Ball

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06345768

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Cholecystectomy is the most common major abdominal surgical procedure in western countries. Patients may experience fear and anxiety before surgery.

Stress ball, one of the distraction methods, is an effective method in providing cognitive focus. It is seen that the stress ball method is used to reduce patients' anxiety and pain. Squeezing the stress ball during the surgical procedure allows patients to have direct control over the object, increasing their sense of empowerment. In this way, it has a positive effect on anxiety and patient satisfaction without interfering with the surgical procedure.

In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the effect of preoperative use of stress ball on patients' fear, stress and comfort in order to determine the effect of stress ball applied before cholecystectomy surgery on patients' surgical fear, stress and comfort. It is thought that the data obtained as a result of the research will provide evidence for the effect of the stress ball, which is a non-pharmacological method used before the procedure, on fear, stress and comfort.

Full description

This study was planned to examine the effect of a stress ball applied to patients before laparoscopic cholecystectomy on preoperative anxiety, surgical fear and comfort. Patients were given a stress ball before the procedure, and the other group received routine care.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age 18 years or older
2. Able to speak and understand Turkish
3. Being literate
4. Patients who underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy
5. Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

1. Use of any analgesic or anxiolytic preoperatively
2. Any physical obstacle to using a stress ball (patients with partial paralysis or weak hand muscles)
3. History of psychiatric disorders or ongoing psychiatric treatment.
4. Emergency surgery
5. Open cholecystectomy
6. Hearing or perception problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The researcher obtained 6 cm-diameter, moderate hardness, compressible balls made of silicone material in similar colors, mainly blue and green tones, some of which combined both colors featuring an Earth motif, before the study.

Treatment:

Other: Stress Ball

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients included in the control group had no intervention performed after completing the scale tools on the pretest, and 30 minutes later, the Surgical Fear Questionnaire, VAS-A and General Comfort Questionnaire were administered (posttest). Patients in the control group were not given stress balls for the pretest or posttest. No intervention was applied to patients in the control group. The scales were completed by researchers via face-to-face interviews in the preoperative waiting unit.