NCT06889935

Investigating the Effect of Respiratory Exercise Diary on Pain in Cardiovascular Surgery

The Effect of Respiratory Exercise Diary Use on Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Marmara University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study was carried out to evaluate the effect of respiratory exercise diary use on postoperative pain in patients undergoing elective cardiovascular surgery in a training and research hospital in Istanbul.

Detailed description

The randomised controlled experimental study was conducted between 11 July 2024 and 11 January 2025 in the cardiovascular surgery inpatient wards of a training and research hospital in Istanbul. The study was conducted with a total of 74 patients, 37 in the control group and 37 in the intervention group. Data were collected by the researcher through face-to-face interviews with the patients. 'Patient Identification Form', "Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)", "Respiratory Exercise Diary" were used.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise diary	The respiratory exercise diary was prepared by reviewing the literature in order to record the time, number and frequency of respiratory exercises performed by patients with the use of a spirometer. On the first page of the diary consisting of two pages; the patient's name and surname, date of surgery, date of birth, how and how often to use the spirometer, and a pictorial information note to remind the position to be taken were included, while on the second page; the chart in which the patients would write the number of exercises they performed with the spirometer during the first three postoperative days opposite the relevant hour was included.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-11
• Primary completion: 2025-01-11
• Completion: 2025-01-21
• First posted: 2025-03-21
• Last updated: 2025-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)