Effect of Watching a Comedy Video on Anxiety, Pain, Procedural Readiness, and Uroflowmetric Parameters in Patients Undergoing Urodynamic Testing | NCT07728903

NCT07728903

Overview

NCT ID: NCT07728903
Lead Sponsor: Tarsus UniversityOTHER
Official Title: Effect of Watching a Comedy Video on Anxiety, Pain, Procedural Readiness, and Uroflowmetric Parameters in Patients Undergoing Urodynamic Testing: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief Summary: This study aims to determine the effects of watching a comedy video on anxiety, pain, procedural readiness, and uroflowmetric parameters in patients undergoing urodynamic testing.

Data will be collected using the Descriptive Characteristics Form, State Anxiety Inventory (SAI), Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Procedural Readiness Form, and Uroflowmetric Parameters Monitoring Form.

Upon admission to the urodynamic unit, all participants will complete the Descriptive Characteristics Form, State Anxiety Inventory, and Procedural Readiness Form under the supervision of researcher GB.

Participants assigned to the control group will receive the institution's standard pre-procedural care. As part of routine clinical practice, patients will wait in the designated waiting area until their scheduled procedure time. When called to the urodynamic unit, they will receive the standard pre-procedural information routinely provided by the clinic. Patients will then be asked to remove their clothing and assume the appropriate position for the procedure. Urodynamic catheters will be inserted according to the institutional protocol, and the urodynamic examination will be performed. During the procedure, bladder filling and voiding functions will be evaluated. After completion of the examination, the catheters will be removed, and patients will be discharged according to routine clinical practice.

Participants assigned to the intervention group will watch a 15-minute comedy video on a tablet computer immediately before the urodynamic procedure under the supervision of researcher EKD. The video will be viewed in the patient's room under the supervision of a healthcare professional. The video material will consist of scenes carefully selected by the researchers to exclude violence, insults, profanity, sexual content, discrimination, or intense conflict that might evoke negative emotional responses. The selection of the video content will also consider cultural appropriateness, comprehensibility, and broad public appeal.

Short humorous scenes without negative content will be selected from popular 1970s Turkish comedy films starring Kemal Sunal, including Erkek Güzeli Sefil Bilo, İnek Şaban, Hababam Sınıfı, and similar productions. These clips will be compiled into a single standardized video lasting approximately 15 minutes, and all participants in the intervention group will watch the same video in the same sequence.

During the urodynamic procedure, uroflowmetric parameters will be recorded in the Uroflowmetric Parameters Monitoring Form by researcher GB.

Immediately after completion of the procedure, procedural pain will be assessed using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), which will be administered by researcher GB.

Status and Timeline

Status: Not yet recruiting
Last Update Posted: Jul 27, 2026Actual
Start Date: Aug 1, 2026Estimated
Primary Completion Date: Jun 1, 2027Estimated
Completion Date

Participation Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study: Adult (18-64)Older Adult (65+)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Yes
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Aged 18 years or older.

Scheduled to undergo urodynamic testing for the first time.

Conscious, oriented, and able to cooperate.

Able to provide written informed consent.

Able to speak and understand Turkish.

Without any physical or cognitive disability that would interfere with participation in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

Declining to participate or withdrawing from the study at any stage.

Having chronic pain.

Currently using anxiolytic medication.

Study Plan

Study Type: Interventional
Phase: Not Applicable
Enrollment: 68Estimated
Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple

Contacts and Locations

Central Contacts: Gamze BozkulContact
gamze.bozkul@gmail.com+903246000033

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Masking Description

Participants will be allocated to the study groups by researcher EE using a simple randomization method based on a random number table. The randomization sequence will be generated using the online randomization tool available at https://www.randomizer.org/.

When patients scheduled for urodynamic testing present to the outpatient clinic, they will be screened for eligibility by researcher EKD according to the predefined inclusion criteria. Patients who meet the eligibility criteria and provide written informed consent will be enrolled in the study. Researcher EKD will then notify researcher EE, who will determine the participant's group assignment according to the pre-generated randomization sequence and communicate the allocation only to researcher EKD.

Accordingly, all researchers except EE (who is responsible for the randomization process), as well as the participants, their relatives, and the clinical staff, will remain blinded to group allocation. Outcome data will be collected

Participant Group/Arms

Watching a comedy videoExperimental

Participants allocated to the intervention group will watch a standardized comedy video for approximately 15 minutes on a tablet computer immediately before the urodynamic procedure under the supervision of researcher EKD. The video will be viewed in the patient's room under the supervision of a healthcare professional. The video material will be preselected by the research team and will include only scenes that do not contain violence, insults, profanity, sexual content, discrimination, or intense conflict that could evoke negative emotional responses in participants. The selection of the video content will also consider cultural appropriateness, comprehensibility, and broad audience appeal. Şahinalp (2010), in a study examining the evolution of Turkish comedy films, reported that comedy films produced during the 1970s elicited stronger humorous responses from audiences than films from later periods. Furthermore, Genç and Sarıtaş (2020) demonstrated that comedy video clips compiled

Other: Watching a comedy video

Control groupNo Intervention

Participants allocated to the control group will receive the institution's standard pre-procedural care. As part of routine clinical practice, patients will remain in the waiting area after admission to the outpatient clinic until their scheduled procedure time. When called to the urodynamic unit, they will receive the standard pre-procedural information routinely provided by the clinic. Patients will then be asked to remove their clothing and assume the appropriate position for the procedure. Urodynamic catheters will be inserted in accordance with the institutional protocol, and the examination will be performed. During the procedure, bladder filling and voiding functions will be evaluated. Upon completion of the examination, the catheters will be removed, and patients will be discharged according to the routine clinical protocol.