The Effects of Color Therapy on patient’s anxiety under chemotherapy in oncology unit:A Randomized Clinical Trial study

Determining the effect of color therapy on the anxiety of chemotherapy patients referred to the oncology department

A clinical trial with two control and intervention groups, with parallel groups, one blind strain, randomization using a random number table, with a number of 189 samples.

In this study, 189 patients referred for chemotherapy to the chemotherapy department of Bistoon Hospital are studied. Both intervention and control groups are given the Beck questionnaire to measure anxiety, and after filling it and using a table of random numbers, randomization is done and for blinding, the study subjects are blinded from the corridor inside the room. and the intervention group was transferred to a private room with a blue color spectrum and the control group was transferred to a normal room with the normal color spectrum of the hospital and they stayed in that environment for twenty minutes. Then again, the anxiety level of people in both groups is measured by Beck's questionnaire.

Conducting at least one chemotherapy session and being hospitalized for more than 6 hours for chemotherapy and willingness to participate in the study are the entry criteria and unwillingness to participate in the study or not completing the questionnaire completely are the criteria for excluding people from the research.

Both the intervention and control groups will be given the Beck questionnaire to measure anxiety and after filling it, the intervention group will be transferred to a private room with a blue color spectrum, and the control group will be transferred to a normal room with the usual color spectrum of the hospital and spend twenty minutes in that environment. As. Then again, the anxiety level of people in both groups is measured by the Beck questionnaire.

Anxiety

It will be simple randomization with random assignment to intervention and control groups and using a table of random numbers from top to bottom. First, the patients in the study are placed in the waiting room and are registered by the researcher, then the researcher moves from top to bottom by using the table of random numbers and in order to allocation Concealmen the numbers are written on a card and the cards are placed in the letter envelopes in order. In order to preserve the random sequence, the pass number is done in the same order on the outer surface of the envelopes. Finally, the lid of the letter envelopes is glued and placed in a box. At the time of registration of the participants, the order of entry of qualified participants into the study, one of the envelopes will be opened in order and the assigned group will participate. Each sample will be assigned a number. The study subjects are divided into two groups of 95 people (total study 189 people) A and B, the even numbers of group A, which is the intervention group, and the odd numbers of group B, which is the control group.

In this study, blinding is done in a one-way blind method, in such a way that after registering and assigning an envelope to them, in order to determine the intervention or control group, according to the number in the envelope, the subjects left the waiting room. He/She passed through the rooms and if the number inside the envelope seen by the researcher is an even number, the person in question will go to the intervention room, and if the number is odd, the sample will go to the control room.

For keeping anonymous