Status:

COMPLETED

Effect of Stress Ball Use on Pain, Sleep Quality and Physiological Parameters

Lead Sponsor:

Giresun University

Conditions:

Critically Ill Patients Admitted in ICU

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Environmental stressors, pain and sleep disorders are common in intensive care patients and non-pharmacological approaches can be effective in the management of these factors. This study will be condu...

Detailed Description

Intensive care units (ICU) are environments where critically ill patients are treated and require advanced medical intervention . Critically ill patients in ICU are monitored from the time of admissio...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients who agreed to participate in the study, who were older than 18 years of age, who could speak and understand Turkish, who had been treated in the ICU for at least 48 hours, who had a score of 15 on the Glasgow Coma Scale and a score of 2 on the Ramsey Sedation Scale, who were extubated, who had not received intravenous sedation and anaesthetic drugs for the last 12 hours, who could communicate meaningfully, and who did not have a physical disability in squeezing the stress ball were included in the study.

Exclusion

  • Patients using antihypertensive, beta blockers and similar drugs, experiencing situations that would cause them to leave the study (death, transfer to another unit, discharge or unwillingness to continue the study, etc.), receiving inotropic treatment (dopamine, steradine and others), patients with hearing and vision problems, patients treated with a diagnosis of sleep disorder, patients with a diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorder and treated with this diagnosis, patients with analgesic treatment in routine treatment were excluded from the study.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 10 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 30 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT07207837

Start Date

January 10 2025

End Date

April 30 2025

Last Update

October 6 2025

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Giresun University Health Sciences Faculty

Giresun, Turkey (Türkiye), 28340