Clinical trial NCT06973252: Sleep Quality in Surgical Intensive Care
Official title: The Effect of Eye Mask on Sleep Quality in Patients Hospitalised in Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Non-Randomised Experimental Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Nursing Care
Intensive Care Unit ICU
Sleep Quality
Lead sponsor: Aydin Adnan Menderes University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-05-15
Enrollment: 64
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: It is thought that transferring low-cost and easily applicable interventions that can be used to control environmental stressors such as noise and light that negatively affect sleep quality, especially in intensive care environments, into clinical practice will improve the quality of nursing care. It is recommended that complementary interventions that can be used to improve such sleep quality should be tested and supported by new studies. In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of eye mask on sleep quality in patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit after abdominal surgery.

Detailed description: Sleep is one of the basic needs to maintain and protect health and is a physiological state that occurs as a result of loss of consciousness, slowing of muscle activities, and decrease in neural activity for a certain period of time. Sleep quality is adversely affected as a result of physiological or psychological factors occurring in the perioperative period or disruptions in normal sleep phases due to environmental factors such as light and noise in the intensive care environment. Especially in surgical intensive care units (SICU), it is one of the units where deterioration in the sleep quality of patients is frequently experienced.

It is reported that improving sleep quality in intensive care units will support the recovery processes of patients in the clinical environment and shorten the duration of hospital stay. Non-pharmacological methods are frequently used in patients hospitalised in the intensive care unit. In the literature, there are research results on the positive effects of using eye patch and earplugs, listening to audio books, massage and aromatherapy, acupressure, music therapy, white noise application, reflexology massage and foot bath interventions on sleep quality.

Sleep is an important component of nursing management in surgical intensive care units and is one of the basic needs of patients. Surgical nurses who provide nursing care here should plan, implement and evaluate environmental arrangements and non-pharmacological interventions to improve the sleep quality of patients. Especially interventions such as eye mask can be used to control the environmental factor that negatively affects sleep quality in surgical intensive care units. In systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the method of sleep in intensive care unit patients, it is reported that the use of eye mask improves sleep quality, but more studies are needed to increase the quality of evidence. It is thought that transferring low-cost and easily applicable interventions that can be used to control environmental stressors such as noise and light that negatively affect sleep quality, especially in intensive care environments, into clinical practice will improve the quality of nursing care.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* had undergone abdominal surgery
* over 18 years of age,
* who speak Turkish,
* who have not received any diagnosis related to mental health,
* who are open to communication and co-operation
* Patients who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* patients with a history of neurological or psychiatric disorders
* patients with any eye disease
* patients who are unable or unwilling to wear an eye mask

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sleep status
timeFrame: On the 3rd postoperative day
measure: Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) Score
timeFrame: Postoperative 1st, 2nd and 3rd days
measure: Richard-Campbell Sleep Scale (RCS) Score
timeFrame: Postoperative 1st, 2nd and 3rd days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Aydın
country: Turkey
facility: Aydın Adnan Menderes University
state: Zafer Mahallesi
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