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Influence of Gas Pain, Post-operative Resilience, and Body Temperature Discomfort in Laparoscopic Myomectomy Patients after Thermotherapy
- Source :
- Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 4-18 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Korean Society of Women Health Nursing, 2019.
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Abstract
- PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of thermotherapy on gas pain, post-operative resilience, and body temperature discomfort among patients who received laparoscopic myomectomies. METHODS: The experimental group consisted of 62 patients with thermotherapy and the control group consisted of 60 patients. Thermotherapy was applied individually to the experimental group four hours after surgery. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, χ²-tests, and repeated measures of analysis of variance, using IBM SPSS Statistics version 18. RESULTS: The results showed no significant interaction effect between the group and time of measurement in gas-related pain in the experimental group. For gas-related pain, there was significant difference in right shoulder pain at 24 hours (t=-4.222, p=.000), 48 hours (t=-3.688, p=.000), 72 hours (t=-2.250, p=.028), and left at 24 hours (t=-3.727, p=.000), 48 hours (t=-4.150, p=.000), and 72 hours (t=-2.482, p=.016) and both shoulders at 24 hours (t=-2.722, p=.009) and 48 hours (t=-2.525, p=.014). There was no significant difference in epigastric pain, excluding both epigastric pain at 48 hours (t=2.908, p=.005), 72 hours (t=3.010, p=.004), but there was a significant difference in objective body temperature discomfort (t=2.895, p=.008). CONCLUSION: Thermotherapy relieved shoulder gas-related pain and objective body temperature discomfort. It needs to be developed and applied to improve post-operative discomfort in patients with laparoscopic hysterectomies.
- Subjects :
- Advanced and Specialized Nursing
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
business.industry
RT1-120
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Laparoscopic myomectomy
Nursing
Surgery
thermotherapy
recovery
gynecological laparoscopy
Maternity and Midwifery
medicine
pain
Post operative
Resilience (network)
business
body temperature
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20937695 and 22871640
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....020625bf48964dee2d7968c92232f282
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2019.25.1.4