Perioperative anxiety is common in surgical patients and linked to poor outcomes. This multicenter randomized controlled trial assessed the effect of the use of a warm weighted blanket on presurgical anxiety and pain, as well as postsurgical restlessness, nausea, and vomiting. Levels of anxiety and pain were measured in adult patients using a 100-point visual analog scale before elective surgery. Patients received either a warm weighted blanket (n = 74) or a traditional sheet or nonweighted blanket (n = 74). Patients in the intervention group had significantly lower preoperative anxiety scores (mean [SD] = 26.28 [25.75]) compared to the control group (mean [SD] = 38.73 [30.55], P = .008). However, the intervention had no significant effect on presurgical pain or postsurgical nausea, vomiting, or restlessness. These results suggest that weighted blankets reduce preoperative anxiety in adult patients.
Keyphrases
- randomized controlled trial
- patients undergoing
- chronic pain
- end stage renal disease
- sleep quality
- pain management
- magnetic resonance
- neuropathic pain
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- ejection fraction
- peritoneal dialysis
- study protocol
- chronic kidney disease
- network analysis
- primary care
- coronary artery bypass
- type diabetes
- coronary artery disease
- metabolic syndrome
- acute coronary syndrome
- spinal cord
- cross sectional
- depressive symptoms
- patient reported
- weight loss
- surgical site infection