The Effect of Pain Education on Pain and Comfort

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The study was planned as quasi-experimental to determine the effect of pain training given to patients who will undergo surgery for anorectal diseases on postoperative pain and comfort. The research was carried out in Istanbul Taksim Training and Research Hospital General Surgery Clinic between November 2021 and November 2022. Data were collected with the "Patient Introduction Education Leaflet", "Patient Pain Education Leaflet", "Numeric Pain Scale", "Brief Pain Inventory" and "Perianesthesia Comfort Scale". The data were analyzed with appropriate statistical methods using the SPSS 25.0 package program. In the study, the difference between the groups in terms of demographic characteristics and life histories of the patients was insignificant and showed a homogeneous distribution (p\>0.05). When the measurements of the patients in the experimental and control groups were compared; It was determined that the patients in the experimental group had lower pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and body temperature, and the mean SPO2 was higher than the patients in the control group (p\<0.05). When the evaluations between the groups are examined; It was found that the mean pain scores evaluated with the Numerical Pain Scale and Brief Pain Inventory scales in the patients included in the experimental group were lower than the patients included in the control group; The comfort level evaluated with the Perianesthesia Comfort Scale was found to be higher in the experimental group than in the control group (p\<0.05). Hypothesis 1: Pain education given to experimental group patients who will undergo surgery for anorectal diseases has an effect on postoperative pain. Hypothesis 2: Pain education given to patients in the experimental group who will undergo surgery for anorectal diseases has an effect on the comfort level after surgery.

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