Effects of Comedy Therapy on Anxiety and Vital Signs in Transplant Recipients

N/ACompletedNCT06919588

Bitlis Eren University120 enrolled

Overview

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of watching excerpts from classical Turkish comedy films on pre-transplant anxiety levels and vital signs in liver transplant recipients. H1-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients. H1-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films reduces preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients. H2-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients. H2-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has a positive effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

Intervention Group: A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. Patients will be shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by researchers before transplant surgery. After the intervention, vital signs will be checked as a post-test and a state anxiety scale will be applied. A quiet and calm environment will be provided in the patient room while patients are shown the comedy films. Control Group: A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. No intervention will be made to the control group patients outside of the clinical protocol. After a certain waiting period (average of 30 minutes), the patients' vital signs will be checked and the state anxiety scale will be applied again.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Interventions

comedy therapyBEHAVIORAL

Before the transplant surgery, the patients were shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by the researchers.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Being over 18 years of age, * Being a liver transplant recipient, * Data obtained before transplantation, * Not having any visual or auditory problems. Exclusion Criteria: * Being under 18 years of age, * Having any visual/auditory problems, * Not accepting to participate in the study/wanting to leave, * Not providing hemodynamic instability (sudden change in vital signs, etc.)

Locations (1)

Bitlis Eren University

Bitlis, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

anxiety level

The anxiety levels of patients will be measured using the "State and Trait Anxiety Scale". State and Trait Anxiety Scale; consists of two scales. Each scale has 20 questions. Scoring is between 1-4. Each scale score varies between 20-80 points. A high scale score indicates high anxiety. A low scale score indicates low anxiety.

Time frame: Between April and August.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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