Effect of digital storytelling on sleep quality and anxiety of patients with pituitary adenoma candidated for transesphenoidal surgery

Authors
Category Primary study
Registry of TrialsIranian Registry of Clinical Trials
Year 2023
INTERVENTION: Intervention 1: Intervention group: patients suffering from pituitary adenoma who will recieve digital storytelling and use it before surgery, after surgery when they came to neurosurgery ward and during hospitalization. Digital storytelling might be given to patients when they hospitalised. Patients can watch this storytelling right before surgery and they can use it when they need help. This storytelling is composed of doctor and nurses guides like; pre op and post op readinesses, adventures of patients who cured and things like diet and excersice after surgery. Intervention 2: Control group: patients suffering from pituitary adenoma who dont recieve digotal storytelling during hospitalization and just recieve routin cares and training in ward from nurses and doctors working there. The cares and patient's training will be based on protocols and brochures which are used in hospital. CONDITION: D35.2 Pituitary adenoma. ; Benign neoplasm of pituitary gland PRIMARY OUTCOME: Anxiety. Timepoint: Before the surgery, one day after entering the post‐surgery department and when symptoms have stabilized, three weeks later when going to the clinic for a follow‐up visit. Method of measurement: STAI questionnaire for anxiety. Sleep Quality. Timepoint: Before the surgery, one day after entering the post‐surgery department and when symptoms have stabilized, three weeks later when going to the clinic for a follow‐up visit. Method of measurement: PSQI questionnaire. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Suffering from Benign pituitary adenoma that has been confirmed through diagnostic methods and examinations by a specialist doctor. 18 to 60 aging Not suffering from intellectual disability and learning disorders Consciousness level with Glascow coma scale 15 Accessing and working with social networks or e‐mail, working with electronic devices and the permission of the attending physician to use them The absence of nausea in patients
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First added on: Feb 20, 2024