Clinical Trial: Effects of the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique on Postoperative Pain Scores, Anxiety, and Sleep Quality in Patients

U.S., Dec. 27 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07303634) titled 'Effects of the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique on Postoperative Pain Scores, Anxiety, and Sleep Quality in Patients' on Dec. 07.

Brief Summary: This study aims to evaluate the effects of teaching the 4-7-8 breathing technique, one of the deep breathing techniques, to patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery and applying it during the preoperative and postoperative periods on postoperative pain levels, anxiety levels, and sleep quality. Secondary objectives are to evaluate patients' postoperative peripheral oxygen saturation and length of hospital stay.

Patients will be randomized into two groups using a closed opaque enve...