Patient EducationNCT07100275
The Effect of Video-Supported Online Preoperative Education on Fear, Anxiety, Sleep, and Stress
A study testing Patient education and Follow-up via Mobile Health Application in people with Patient Education and Surgical Fear and Worrying, run by Bingol University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
Gallbladder stone disease is among the most common digestive system problems worldwide. The global incidence of gallstones is estimated to be 10-20%. In Europe, this rate is approximately 20%. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 65 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Patient Education, Surgical Fear and Worrying, Surgical Stress Response
- What is being tested?
- Patient education and Follow-up via Mobile Health Application
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 128 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 20 Aug 2025to 30 Dec 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 65 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Patients over the age of 18,
- Those who can speak and write Turkish (education level primary school and above),
- Those who have undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery for the first time,
- Those who are not receiving psychiatric treatment or taking medication,
- Those who do not have a chronic disease,
- Those who are not taking cortisone-type medication,
Show all 9Show fewer
- Those who have a smartphone and know how to use it,
- Patients whose anesthesia evaluation was performed 1-3 days before the surgery,
- Patients who volunteer to participate in the study will be included in the study.
Who cannot join
- Those whose surgery is canceled for any reason.
- Those who want to leave the study at any stage after volunteering to participate in the study.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
Izzettın E Principal Investigator and Lecturer, PhD in Public Health contact
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site
Bingol Universty
Bingoel, Central, 12000
Bingol Universty, +9(0426) 216 00 12, basinyayin@bingol.edu.tr
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Video-Supported Online Preoperative Education on Fear, Anxiety, Sleep, and Stress in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Gallbladder stone disease is among the most common digestive system problems worldwide. The global incidence of gallstones is estimated to be 10-20%. In Europe, this rate is approximately 20%. In Turkey, the incidence of gallstones is accepted as 6% and it is estimated that an average of 4 million people have gallstones. ). Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the most commonly used minimally invasive technique in the surgical treatment of gallbladder diseases. Although this is a technique, it also has many complications. Although drains placed after surgery are protective and therapeutic, they may cause some complications. Due to all these reasons, there are disadvantages such as lack of training and incomplete information given to the patient before surgery, and the patient not knowing what to do in physiological and psychological preparation before surgery. This training and information seems to be important in post-operative recovery and shortening the hospital period. Pre-surgical virtual training enables early detection of changes in the patient's vital signs, early intervention, and reduction of the number of home visits.
Read the detailed description
This study aims to examine the effect of online education given preoperatively to patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on fear, anxiety, sleep and stress.
This randomized controlled trial will be carried out in Bingöl State Hospital Surgical Service between 2024-2025. The research population consists of patients who underwent Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy surgery in this hospital between the specified dates.
will create. The research sample will consist of 128 patients who voluntarily participate in the research.
The data to be used in the research consists of the patients' introductory information form, clinical information and survey results, and a number of tests to be measured by taking blood. While demographic information includes basic information such as age, gender, marital status and educational status, clinical information includes details about the patient's preoperative process. Survey data includes evaluations of fear, anxiety and sleep, and blood tests include serum cortisol level and serum glucose level.
The collected data will be analyzed in the SPSS statistical analysis program. In statistical analyses, methods such as descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOV will be used and relationship-seeking analyzes will be conducted on the factors affecting stress formation.
This research aims to determine the effect of online education applied to prevent fear, anxiety and stress before laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery. The positive effects of preoperative online education on patients, whether it reduces fear, anxiety and stress, and its effects on the patient's general well-being will be evaluated.
This study, which investigates the effect of online education applied to prevent fear, anxiety and stress before laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery, aims to make a significant contribution to the literature in this field. The findings may contribute to more effective and holistic online patient education before laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery.
In this project, a multidisciplinary approach has been adopted and members of the team from different areas of expertise will contribute according to their areas of expertise at different stages of the project. This is critical to the successful completion of the project.
- Conditions
- Patient Education, Surgical Fear and Worrying, Surgical Stress Response, Medical-surgical Nursing
- Being tested
- Patient education, Follow-up via Mobile Health Application
- Keywords
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Preoperative education, Preoperative anxiety, Surgical fear, Sleep quality, Stress levels
- Medical subject headings
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Patient educationBehavioural
Also called Online video-assisted patient education, Surgical fear and anxiety
In addition to the procedures in the control group, the patient will be informed about the surgery while he/she is at home the day before the surgery. Information will be provided about the hospital and surgical process. If there are any questions, the patient will be asked and their concerns will be resolved. T0-T1-T2 procedures will be performed on patients in the intervention group, respectively.
Follow-up via Mobile Health ApplicationBehavioural
The researcher will create a video depicting the process of transferring patients from the ward to surgery. The video will be created with a volunteer mannequin. It will not be created with a real patient. This video will be recorded during a non-busy Sunday at the hospital. This video will be shown to patients the evening before surgery, following online education, and their questions will be answered.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Clinical Care | No intervention | Control Group |
| Follow-up via Mobile Health Application | Experimental | Intervention Group Receives: Behavioral: Patient education; Behavioral: Follow-up via Mobile Health Application |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Visual Comparison Scale (VCS)-Anxiety
It consists of a 10-cm-long horizontal line. The left side contains the labels "I don't have anxiety" and the right side "I feel a lot of anxiety." The VAS value is determined by measuring the distance between the leftmost end of the scale and the marked point. Values range from 0 to 10, with higher values indicating increased anxiety (Cline et al., 1992).
Measured: 1-2 Month
Secondary outcomes (2)
Richard-Campbell Sleep Scale (RCS):
Richard-Campbell Sleep Scale (RCS):
Developed by Richard Campbell in 1987, this scale consists of six items that measure the quality and depth of sleep, duration of sleep, and the noise level in the sleep environment. As the scale score increases, so does sleep quality. The Cronbach's alpha for the scale was found to be 0.82.
Measured: 1-2 Months
Surgical Fear Scale
This scale was developed by Theunissen and colleagues in 2014 to determine the fear level of patients undergoing elective surgery. The scale consists of eight items and is scored from 0 to 10. The total score is 0, with a minimum score of 80 and a maximum score of 80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of surgical fear. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for the scale was calculated as 0.89.
Measured: 1-2 Months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted3 Aug 2025
- Study start20 Aug 2025 (estimated)
- Primary completion10 Sep 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion30 Dec 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (4)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Patient EducationStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- two-group randomized controlled trial
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 128 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Bingol University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Izzettin Ekinci, Bingol University
- Investigators
- izzettin e researcher, Study directoraynur koyuncu, Assistant Professor, Study director, Hasan Kalyoncu University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07100275
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- BU-SHMYO-IE-01
- Status last verified
- Jul 2025
- First submitted
- 18 Jun 2025
- Last updated
- 3 Aug 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No: Individual participant data will not be shared publicly due to ethical restrictions and data protection policies.
Publications
Flores A, Hoffman HG, Navarro-Haro MV, Garcia-Palacios A, Atzori B, Le May S, Alhalabi W, Sampaio M, Fontenot MR, Mason KP. Using Immersive Virtual Reality Distraction to Reduce Fear and Anxiety before Surgery. Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Oct 9;11(19):2697. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11192697.
PubMed 37830734Maheta B, Shehabat M, Khalil R, Wen J, Karabala M, Manhas P, Niu A, Goswami C, Frezza E. The Effectiveness of Patient Education on Laparoscopic Surgery Postoperative Outcomes to Determine Whether Direct Coaching Is the Best Approach: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials. JMIR Perioper Med. 2024 Jun 27;7:e51573. doi: 10.2196/51573.
PubMed 38935953Richey AE, Hastings KG, Karius A, Segovia NA, Caruso TJ, Frick S, Rodriguez S. Virtual Reality Reduces Fear and Anxiety During Pediatric Orthopaedic Cast Room Procedures: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Pediatr Orthop. 2022 Nov-Dec 01;42(10):600-607. doi: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000002250. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
PubMed 36040069Abbasnia F, Aghebati N, Miri HH, Etezadpour M. Effects of Patient Education and Distraction Approaches Using Virtual Reality on Pre-operative Anxiety and Post-operative Pain in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Jun;24(3):280-288. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2022.12.006. Epub 2023 Jan 17.
PubMed 36658058