Effectiveness of Guided Breathing Exercises on Anorectal Pain in Patients With Symptomatic Hemorrhoids
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Pain scores
研究概览
简要总结
This is a quality assurance trial to evaluate the effectiveness of guided breathing exercises on reducing the symptoms of hemorrhoidal disease in colorectal surgery patients. All patients who undergo hemorrhoid surgery are educated on breathing exercises that can be used to reduce pain and increase relaxation. These patients will be surveyed at their post-operative visit regarding pain and other symptoms and at their one month post operative visit on the any hospitalizations and emergency room visits since their surgery.
详细描述
The effectiveness of guided breathing exercises on reducing the symptoms of hemorrhoidal disease in colorectal surgery patients will be assessed in this quality assurance trial. During the pre-operative clinic visit, patients to undergo hemorrhoid surgery are educated on breathing exercises that can be used to reduce pain and increase relaxation. In this year long study patient self-reported utilization of the breathing exercises and their level of pain, sleep quality, gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, constipation, etc), emergency room visits, and hospitalizations in the month post hemorrhoid surgery will be evaluated. All patients will be asked to complete a brief survey at their pre-operative and one month post-operative visits.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —(Adult, Older Adult)
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Undergoing elective hemorrhoid surgery
排除标准
- •Emergent/urgent hemorrhoid surgery
结局指标
主要结局
Pain scores
时间窗: within ~30 days of surgery, at the time of post-operative clinic visit
The Wong-Baker faces pain score scale which displays 6 faces with scores of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, where 0=no hurt and 10=worst hurt will be used in the pre-operative and post-operative surveys to assess each patient's self reported pain level. the lower the score the more favorable/less pain.
Utilization of breathing exercises
时间窗: within ~30 days of surgery, at the time of post-operative clinic visit
Response to two questions in the post-operative survey will be used to assess wehether the patient did the breathing exercises after surgery (yes or no) and if they did how man times daily did they do the breathing exercises- \<2, 3-5, or \>5.
次要结局
- Admissions within 30 Days of Surgery(within 30 days of surgery)
- Emergency Department visits within 30 Days of Surgery(within 30 days of surgery)
