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Study aim
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The effect of Benson relaxation and nature sound on pain anxiety and body image in burn patients of intensive care unit of Zare hospital in Sari
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Design
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The clinical trial has a control group, a Benson relaxation group and a nature sound group. The process of simple random allocation will be done using software, random allocation. Sample blocking will be assigned to three groups of 60 people (20 people in each group).
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Settings and conduct
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The study is a randomized clinical trial. The research environment of the burn intensive care unit of Zare Hospital in Sari was considered. The intervention is performed for 7 consecutive days, in the morning, as well as measuring the mental image of the patients in week 3 and week 5.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: be alert and able to cooperate and communicate clearly with the researcher, having an age of 18 years and above, hospitalization in the burn ward that is 24 hours after the burn injury, having a second degree burn with an area of 30% and grade 3 burns. Exclusion criteria: aggravation of physical condition, death or discharge from the hospital during the study period, discoloration of the wound due to infection, inability to participate in the intervention for seven consecutive days, having a history of mental illness and patients with severe anxiety, mental-cognitive disability, drug addiction, blindness and deafness, failure to perform Relaxation skills after training during intervention and self-immolation
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Intervention groups
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In the group of nature sound, the sound of nature includes (the sound of birds, the quiet sound of rain, river flow, the sound of waterfalls and walking in the forest), all of which are recorded in a row. In the Benson relaxation group, the recorded audiotape instructs the patient to perform the Benson relaxation technique
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Main outcome variables
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Pain; anxiety and body image