Pranayama and Deep Breathing Exercises Sleep Quality After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

"The Effect of Pranayama and Deep Breathing Exercises on Shoulder Pain and Sleep Quality After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy"

This study explores the impact of pranayama and deep breathing exercises on alleviating shoulder pain and improving sleep quality following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

The data were collected by the researcher by face-to-face interview method at SBU Van Training and Research Hospital General Surgery Clinics. Necessary information was given to healthcare professionals in the clinics where the research would be conducted, and the lists of patients who would undergo surgery were followed. Data collection started in the preoperative period, and the data collection phase ended when the patient was discharged after the surgery.

To collect pranayama, deep breathing and control group data, the researcher identified patients who were scheduled to undergo laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery in general surgery services on a daily basis and met the sampling criteria. In the hospital where the research was conducted, laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgeries were performed excluding emergency surgeries.

It is performed electively and patient education is provided on the day of surgery. Patients are taken into surgery according to the surgery list determined the day before.

It was determined by randomization whether the patients participating in the study would be in the control or experimental groups. Patients were included in the study according to randomization order. Patients coming for surgery were randomly assigned to a pranayama group, a deep breathing group, and a control group.

This randomization technique was continued until the sample number in the research groups was reached, and the study was terminated when 22 patients were included in the pranayama group, 22 in the deep breathing group and 22 in the control group.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Shoulder pain after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery patients,
• No hearing-speech problems that would hinder communication,
• No cognitive-mental problems,
• Not having any psychiatric disease,
• No sleep disorder
• Patients who have not previously attended courses on breathing exercises and yoga,
• All volunteers who agreed to participate in the study were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Admitted to the intensive care unit in the early postoperative period,
• Extra surgical intervention (hernia repair, etc.),
• During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, patients undergoing open cholecystectomy patients were excluded from the study.