NCT06919588

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

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor Şerafettin OKUTAN, Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bitlis Eren University

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bitlis Eren University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• Liver Transplant; Complications
• Stress
• Care Acceptor, Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	comedy therapy	Before the transplant surgery, the patients were shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by the researchers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-15
• Completion: 2024-08-30
• First posted: 2025-04-09
• Last updated: 2025-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)