NCT05655884

The Effect of Listening To Music And Foot Reflexology in Children During Perioperative Period

The Effect of Listening To Music And Foot Reflexology on Nausea, Pain And Anxiety in Children During Perioperative Period

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ordu University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The population of the research will be children between the ages of 7 and 12 who underwent day surgery at the Pediatric Surgery Clinic of the Gynecology and Childhood Hospital of Ordu University Training and Research Hospital. The sample of the study will consist of 99 children who have undergone a day surgery operation between the specified dates, who meet the case selection criteria and agree to participate in the study.

Detailed description

First of all, the hospitalized children and their parents will be informed about the study. Verbal and written consent will be obtained from the child and his/her parents who agreed to participate in the study before starting the study. "Child and Parent Descriptive Information Form, Baxter Nausea Scale-BARF, Multidimensional Perioperative Anxiety Scale in Children and Children's Emotional Indicator Scale will be administered to all children in the experimental and control groups 30 minutes before the operation (1st measurement). Before going to the operation, the music listening group will listen to music with a music pillow for 15 minutes, foot reflexology will be applied for 10 minutes to the foot reflexology group, and no application will be made to the control group. 10 minutes after the application, Baxter Nausea Scale-BARF, Multidimensional Perioperative Anxiety Scale in Children and Children's Emotional Indicator Scale will be administered again to all three groups (experimental and control) (2nd measurement). When the child comes to the service from the recovery unit after the surgery and after the necessary medical intervention (60th minute postoperatively), all scales will be applied (3rd measurement) and then the music listening group will be listened to with a music pillow for 15 minutes, reflexology will be applied to the foot reflexology group for 10 minutes, and the control group will be no application will be made and after 10 minutes all the scales will be re-administered to the experimental and control groups (4th measurement). Finally, 30 minutes before the child is discharged. First, all scales will be applied to the experimental and control groups again and an evaluation will be made with these results (5th measurement).

Conditions

• Perioperative Period

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music Listening Application	15 minutes before going to the surgery, the child's favorite and chosen music piece will be loaded onto the mp3 player and played by the researcher via the "creatone music pillow" for 15 minutes. After the child returns to the service from the recovery room (the room where the patient is observed in the operating room for a certain period of time until he recovers from the surgery and his general condition is stable), and after he regains consciousness, music will be played by the music group again for 15 minutes.
OTHER	Foot Reflexology Practice:	Children in this group; Before going to the surgery, foot reflexology will be applied by the researcher, only to the left foot, for 10 minutes. After the child returns to the service from the recovery room (the room where the patient is observed in the operating room for a certain period of time until he recovers from the surgery and his general condition is stable), and after he regains consciousness, foot reflexology will be applied again, only on the left foot, for 10 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-10
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2023-01-15
• First posted: 2022-12-19
• Last updated: 2023-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)