Clinical trial NCT06414980: Smell Memory Method for Patients Before Surgery
Official title: Examining the Effect of the Suggestion Given to Patients With the Olfactory Memory Method Before the Surgical Operation on the Vital Signs and Systemic Evaluation Scoring During Awakening.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Surgery
Gallbladder
Smell
Lead sponsor: Ataturk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-05-16
Enrollment: 34
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The research is planned as a randomized controlled experimental at Erzurum Atatürk University Health Application and Research Center.

The population of the research will include patients who come to the General Surgery Gastroenterology service for laparoscopic cholecystectomy between the specified dates and who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. In this research, 30 experimental and 30 control group patients will be included in the study in order to perform parametric tests.

The data of the research were prepared by the researcher using the literature and similar studies after obtaining ethics committee approval and written permission from the institution where the research would be conducted. "FR.3- Alertness and Sedation Observer Assessment Scale (OAA/S)" and Modified Aldrete Scoring, Awake and Sedation Observer Assessment Scale and "FR.4- MAS and OAA/S Scores Time-Dependent", which includes the Patient's Vital Signs, are used to evaluate the patient's condition. Patients determined by the "Change Table" will be collected by observing them before and after surgery.

In the research; In order to more easily overcome the anxiety and confusion that patients who have undergone surgical operations experience during the orientation process while waking up after the case, the patient will be given suggestions regarding the post-anesthesia waking period by testing the menthol smell in the preoperative period. When the patient hears the menthol scent applied during postoperative awakening; It is intended for the patient to remember that his surgery is over, that he needs to wake up and that the medical staff is waiting for him to wake up. In this way, it is thought that the patient's anxiety and complexity during the postoperative awakening period will be eliminated, the patient's vital signs will remain at an optimum level, and a more comfortable reanimation will occur.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students who do not have communication barriers or hearing, speaking or perception problems will participate in the research.
* Those who are over 18 years of age and under 80 years of age,
* Will participate in the study voluntarily,
* Those who will undergo elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery,
* Operation duration of 1 hour or more,
* General anesthesia will be applied,
* Patients without chronic loss of smell

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who do not accept to work,
* Having problems in smelling,
* Emergency surgeries that occur outside the daily surgery list

Primary outcomes:
measure: Modified Aldrete Score
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Observer Rating of Alertness and Sedayson Scale (OSS/S)
timeFrame: 1 day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Erzurum
country: Turkey
facility: Mükremin Taşın
Study officials:
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