Intrauterine Insemination and Nursing
Condition: Infertility
MeSH terms: Infertility
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This study investigates the effect of virtual reality glasses use and therapeutic touch on
      pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in women during intrauterine insemination procedure
    

Detailed description: 
      Infertility treatment is a stressful and anxious process that begins when couples are
      diagnosed with infertility. Infertility treatment is a process that requires the active
      participation of couples against emotional and physical difficulties. In addition to
      intensive routine and surgical procedures, the treatment process is a period in which couples
      should be in constant communication with healthcare professionals. In Turkey, it is estimated
      that 10-20% of the couples are diagnosed with infertility. In the evaluation of infertile
      couples,Intrauterine Insemination is a simple, safe, and minimally invasive procedure to the
      process of injecting washed sperm into the uterine cavity close to ovulation. Sperm cells
      taken from men are injected directly into the uterus and left at a point closer to the
      fertilization point. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality
      glasses use and therapeutic touch on pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in women during
      intrauterine insemination procedure.

      This randomized controlled study will conduct at Ondokuz Mayis University Training and
      Research Hospital, Infertility polyclinic between january 2022 and June 2022.

      Volunteer women undergoing Intrauterine Insemination will be include. Participants will
      randomly assigned to the intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A
      data collection form including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age,
      educational status, duration of infertility, previous pregnancies, births, abortion/curettage
      numbers, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and Visual Analog Scale scores will use for each
      patient. After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Spielberger
      State Anxiety Scale and VAS scoring scale (pain and nursing satisfaction) were applied to
      both groups by face to face interview during the day giving appointment for Intrauterine
      Insemination. Immediately after the questionnaires will apply, the nurse gave virtual reality
      glasses. and glasses will be put on before the process starts and training will be given to
      continue watching the video while wearing the glasses for 30 minutes. Second group
      participants the nurse researcher will start the application by taking an appropriate hand of
      the patient between his hands and hold it for 30 minutes.

      Participant in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure
      and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (virtual reality or
      therapeutic touch) was performed.The IBM SPSS (Statistical package for the Social Sciences)
      23.0 package program was used to evaluate the data obtained in the study.
    

Intervention name(s): Virtual Reality Glasses; Therapeutic Touch
Intervention type(s): Device; Behavioral
Intervention description(s): After obtaining informed consent, the data collection form, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and VAS scoring scale (pain) were applied to both groups by face to face interview during the day giving appointment for intrauterine insemination. Immediately after the questionnaires were answered, virtual reality glasses were given by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes.; After obtaining informed consent, the data collection form, Spielberger State Anxiety Scale and VAS (pain) scoring scale were applied to both groups by face to face interview during the day giving appointment for intrauterine insemination. Immediately after the questionnaires were answered, therapeutictouch were given by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: This randomized controlled study will conduct at Ondokuz Mayis University Training and Research Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2022 and June 2022. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) guidelines for reporting randomised controlled trials (RCTs) has been used to describe the methods.
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary purpose: Supportive Care
Keywords: intrauterine insemination; nursing; pain; anxiety