Monitoring Food Images After Rectal Surgery To Accelerate Recovery Of Postoperative Bowel Motility: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Year 2023, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 438 - 449, 30.12.2023

Sacide Yıldızeli Topçu , Duygu Soydaş , Doğan Albayrak

https://doi.org/10.54803/sauhsd.1233040

Abstract

Objective: Considering the role of nurses in the postoperative care of patients, simple nursing interventions can prevent gastrointestinal motility problems. This study aimed to assess the impact of viewing food images on the recovery of intestinal motility after surgery in patients who were operated for rectal cancer.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried out with 48 patients who underwent rectal surgery in the general surgery clinic of a university hospital in Türkiye from May 2016 to December 2018. The control group had 25 participants and the experimental group had 23. From the first morning after surgery until defecation, patients in the experimental group were asked to monitor food pictures thrice a day, parallel to their meals.
Results: In the experimental group, patients’ first flatus (3.30 ± 1.52, day) and defecation time (4.91 ± 1.27, day) were significantly shorter compared with the first flatus (4.28 ± 1.64, day) and defecation time (5.84 ± 1.40, day) of the control group (respectively; p = 0.037, p = 0.027).
Conclusion: Monitoring food images supports the cephalic phase and could be a nursing intervention to speed up intestinal functions by increasing the release of gastrointestinal hormones and activating the parasympathetic nervous system. To accelerate bowel motility after rectal surgery, displaying the food images to the patients is a very simple intervention with low risk and cost and nurses should use it in the care of the patients who underwent surgery because of rectal cancer. It is recommended that further studies examining the effectiveness of monitoring food images on gastrointestinal surgeries should be performed.

Keywords

Food images, gastrointestinal motility, ileus, nursing, postoperative, rectal surgery

Rektal Cerrahi Girişim Sonrası İntestinal Motilitenin Arttırılmasında Yiyecekleri İzleme: Bir Yarı-Deneysel Çalışma

Abstract

Amaç: Ameliyat sonrası hasta bakımında, hemşirelerin rolü düşünüldüğünde, basit hemşirelik girişimleri gastrointestinal motilite problemlerini önleyebilir. Bu çalışma, rektum kanseri nedeniyle ameliyat edilen hastalarda, yiyecek görsellerini izlemenin ameliyat sonrası bağırsak hareketliliğinin iyileşmesi üzerine etkisini değerlendirmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Yöntem: Bu yarı deneysel çalışma, Marmara Bölgesinde, bir üniversite hastanesinin genel cerrahi kliniğinde rektum kanser cerrahisi uygulanan 48 hasta ile, Mayıs 2016-Aralık 2018 tarihleri arasında yapıldı. Kontrol grubu 25, deney grubu 23 hastadan oluştu. Deney grubundaki hastalara, ameliyat sonrası ilk sabahtan itibaren dışkılamaya kadar olan süre aralığında, öğün saatlerine paralel, günde üç kez yiyecek resimleri izletildi.
Bulgular: Deney grubunda hastaların ilk gaz çıkışı (3.30 ± 1.52, gün) ve dışkılama süresi (4.91 ± 1.27, gün) kontrol grubundaki hastaların ilk gaz çıkışı (4.28 ± 1.64, gün) ve dışkılama süresiyle (5.84 ± 1.40, gün) karşılaştırıldığında anlamlı olarak daha kısaydı (Sırasıyla; p = 0.037, p = 0.027).
Sonuç: Sefalik fazı uyaran yiyecek görüntülerinin izlenmesi, gastrointestinal hormonların salınımını artırarak ve parasempatik sinir sistemini aktive ederek intestinal fonksiyonların hızlandırılması amacıyla uygulanacak bir hemşirelik girişimi olabilir.
Rektum cerrahisi sonrası intestinal motiliteyi hızlandırmak için hastalara yiyecek görüntülerinin gösterilmesi, riski ve maliyeti düşük olan çok basit bir girişimdir ve hemşireler bunu rektum kanseri nedeniyle ameliyat olan hastaların bakımında kullanmalıdır. Gastrointestinal cerrahide yiyecek görüntüleri izletilmesinin etkinliğini inceleyen farklı bilimsel çalışmalar yürütülmesini önermekteyiz.

Keywords

Ameliyat sonrası dönem, gastrointestinal motilite, hemşirelik, i̇leus, rektum cerrahisi, yiyecek resimleri

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