The Effect of a Stress Ball Applied Before Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery on Anxiety, Surgical Fear, and Hemodynamic Parameters

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Conditions studied: Anxiety, Fear

In brief

This study was designed as a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of a stress ball applied before retrograde intrarenal surgery on patients' anxiety levels, surgical fear, and hemodynamic parameters.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07507656

Run by

Mersin University

People needed

66

Starts

2026-04-16

Expected to finish

2027-04-16

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients to be included in the study are those who:
• Are scheduled to undergo Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS),
• Are 18 years of age or older,
• Are conscious and cooperative,
• Speak and understand Turkish,
• Have stable general condition and hemodynamic parameters,
• Are scheduled for an elective surgical procedure,
• Have no psychiatric diagnosis,
• Are not using psychiatric and/or local neuromuscular blocking medications,
• Provide informed consent to participate in the study (have signed the Informed Consent Form).

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who will not be included in the study are those who:
• Are under 18 years of age,
• Are not conscious or cooperative,
• Do not speak or understand Turkish,
• Have unstable general condition or hemodynamic parameters,
• Are undergoing emergency surgical procedures,
• Have an existing psychiatric diagnosis,
• Are using psychiatric and/or local neuromuscular blocking medications,
• Do not consent to participate in the study (have not signed the Informed Consent Form).

Where it is running

• Turkey, Mersin University, — Yenişehir, Mersin, Turkey (Türkiye)

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