Effects of Comedy Therapy on Anxiety and Vital Signs in Transplant Recipients

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of watching excerpts from classical Turkish comedy films on pre-transplant anxiety levels and vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

H1-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients.

H1-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films reduces preoperative anxiety in liver transplant recipients.

H2-0: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has no effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

H2-1: Watching classical Turkish comedy films has a positive effect on preoperative vital signs in liver transplant recipients.

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Key information

Conditions

Liver Transplant; Complications Behavior Care Acceptor, Health Health Behavior Patient Acceptance of Health Care Stress Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Bitlis Eren University

Bitlis, 13100, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

Intervention Group:

A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. Patients will be shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by researchers before transplant surgery. After the intervention, vital signs will be checked as a post-test and a state anxiety scale will be applied. A quiet and calm environment will be provided in the patient room while patients are shown the comedy films.

Control Group:

A patient introduction form and a state anxiety scale will be applied as a pre-test before transplant surgery, and vital signs will be checked. No intervention will be made to the control group patients outside of the clinical protocol. After a certain waiting period (average of 30 minutes), the patients' vital signs will be checked and the state anxiety scale will be applied again.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Being over 18 years of age,
Being a liver transplant recipient,
Data obtained before transplantation,
Not having any visual or auditory problems.

Exclusion criteria

Being under 18 years of age,
Having any visual/auditory problems,
Not accepting to participate in the study/wanting to leave,
Not providing hemodynamic instability (sudden change in vital signs, etc.)

Treatment and study plan

comedy therapy

Behavioral

Before the transplant surgery, the patients were shown 10-minute Turkish comedy films prepared by the researchers.

Primary outcomes

anxiety level

Time frame: Between April and August.

The anxiety levels of patients will be measured using the "State and Trait Anxiety Scale".

State and Trait Anxiety Scale; consists of two scales. Each scale has 20 questions. Scoring is between 1-4. Each scale score varies between 20-80 points. A high scale score indicates high anxiety. A low scale score indicates low anxiety.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Bitlis Eren University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor Şerafettin OKUTAN, Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bitlis Eren University

Important dates

Study start: 2024
Primary completion: 2024
Study completion: 2024
First posted: Apr 9, 2025
Registry last updated: Sep 23, 2025

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