Clinical trial NCT05541666: Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Postoperative Pain and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement
Official title: Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Postoperative Pain and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Total Knee Replacement
Lead sponsor: Ataturk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-15
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All patients aged 18 and over, who will undergo planned total knee replacement surgery, who are willing to participate in the study and who meet the inclusion criteria, will be included in the study.

Brief summary: Since pain is a complex and unpleasant feeling that affects the individual physically, mentally and socially, it should be controlled. It is also known that major surgeries such as orthopedics and traumatology, general surgery and cardiovascular surgery cause fear of death in the patient, and this fear is then replaced by general anxiety and post-operative pain. The emotional freedom technique is a method that uses cognitive functions and physical components (tapping acupuncture points) to bring about psychological changes. It is also defined as "needle-free acupuncture" or "an emotional form of acupressure" because it is a gentle, non-invasive procedure and uses acupuncture meridians. This method, which is very old in Eastern cultures, started to be used in the West in the 1980s. In this developed technique, all 12 points on the 12 basic meridians, which are the flow paths of the energy in the body, are used. In the emotional liberation technique tour, general anxiety, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, fears and the discomfort caused by anxiety are eliminated and all kinds of targeted problems are cured.

Considering the patients as a whole in terms of biopsychosocial is the basic element of nursing. It is inevitable to experience pain and anxiety in the post-operative period in individuals who are in a foreign environment such as a hospital and who have undergone major surgery such as total knee replacement. With this study, it is expected that the emotional freedom technique will contribute to the national and international literature on the effect of pain and anxiety in the post-operative period and will be a source of information in the development of nursing science on the use of non-pharmacological treatments that can be used in the treatment of pain and anxiety in patients.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Elective patients undergoing total knee replacement surgery for the first time,
2. Volunteer to participate in the research,
3. 18 years and over,
4. Cognitive level scales are suitable for application,
5. Having no vision, hearing, or speech problems that would prevent communication,
6. Patients who do not have any other disease causing pain and anxiety

Exclusion Criteria:

1. EFT was applied before,
2. If any complication develops within 3 days before, during, or after the operation,
3. Patients with health problems (fever, infection, DVT, etc.) that prevent the application of the Emotional Freedom Technique were not included in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in anxiety level on post-operative day 1st (pre-test) and anxiety level on post-operative day 2nd (post-test) in the case group
timeFrame: Baseline, Post-operative 1st and 2nd day
measure: Change in pain level on post-operative day 1st (pre-test) and pain level on post-operative day 2nd (post-test) in the case group
timeFrame: Baseline, Post-operative 1st and 2nd day
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Aksaray
country: Turkey
facility: Aksaray Training and Research Hospital
state: Erzurum
Study officials:
affiliation: Ataturk Univesity
name: Dilek Gürçayır
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Aksaray University
name: Pınar Tanrıver
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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