Effect of Breathing Exercises Before Coronary Angiography
Condition: Anxiety; Breathing Exercises
MeSH terms: Respiratory Aspiration; Anxiety Disorders
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This research was designed as a pre-test-post-test controlled group randomized controlled
      interventional study to determine the effect of breathing exercises applied to patients
      undergoing coronary angiography for the first time on anxiety. Patients were provided with an
      informed consent form, a personal information form and the Beck Anxiety Scale. The Beck
      Anxiety Scale was administered to the control group before and after the procedure. In the
      experimental group, the Beck Anxiety Scale was administered before the procedure, and after
      providing breathing exercise education and application, the Beck Anxiety Scale was completed
      after the procedure.
    

Detailed description: 
      This research was designed as a pre-test-post-test controlled group randomized controlled
      interventional study to determine the effect of breathing exercises applied to patients
      undergoing coronary angiography for the first time on anxiety.

      The study population consisted of SBÜ Kartal Koşuyolu Training and Research Hospital.When
      statistical power analysis was performed according to the G-Power program in the sample
      group, a minimum of 34 experimental and a minimum of 34 control groups were used, considering
      data loss, 76 volunteer patients who met the inclusion criteria were studied. Patients were
      provided with an informed consent form, a personal information form and the Beck Anxiety
      Scale. The Beck Anxiety Scale was administered to the control group before and after the
      procedure. In the experimental group, the Beck Anxiety Scale was administered before the
      procedure, and after providing breathing exercise education and application, the Beck Anxiety
      Scale was completed after the procedure. The 'Dependent Group T-Test' technique was used for
      the analysis of data obtained from the scales used in the study, comparing pre-test and
      post-test scores of the intervention and control groups. Also, the 'Independent Group T-Test'
      was used for separate comparisons of pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental and
      control groups.
    

Intervention name(s): Breathing Exercises; no intervention/routine procedure
Intervention type(s): Behavioral; Other
Intervention description(s): The patients in the intervention group scheduled for angiography were administered the Beck Anxiety Scale, and then they underwent conscious, deep breathing exercises along with synchronized breathing training. The face-to-face teaching and application of the breathing exercises took an average of 15-20 minutes. Additionally, routine treatment was applied. For both the intervention and control groups, the Beck Anxiety Scale was administered again after the completion of the coronary angiography procedure, once stabilization was achieved.; Beck Anxiety Scale was administered to the control group before coronary angiography. No intervention was performed in between. The routine procedure of the hospital continued. Beck Anxiety Scale was administered again after leaving the procedure.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: The study included 2 groups, experimental and control. The patients in the experimental group were administered the beck anxiety scale before coronary angiography. the patients in the experimental group were given breathing exercises by the researcher for 15-20 minutes. the beck anxiety scale was reapplied after the procedure. the patients in the control group were not administered any application and the beck anxiety scale was reapplied after the procedure.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Supportive Care
Keywords: Coronary angiography; Breathing exercises; Anxiety