NCT07794358Not yet recruiting
Effect of Guided Imagery on Sleep Quality, State Anxiety, and Comfort in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
The Effect of Guided Imagery on Sleep Quality, State Anxiety, and Comfort Levels in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Monitored in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 31 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to determine whether guided imagery, when added to routine care, can reduce state anxiety and improve sleep quality and comfort in adults with acute coronary syndrome who are being treated in a cardiac intensive care unit. The main questions this study aims to answer are: Does guided imagery reduce state anxiety compared with routine care alone? Does guided imagery improve sleep quality compared with routine care alone? Does guided imagery improve comfort compared with routine care alone? A total of 64 participants will be randomly assigned to either a guided imagery group or a routine care group using block randomization. Participants in the guided imagery group will receive routine care and listen to a standardized guided imagery audio recording through headphones twice a day for two consecutive days. Each guided imagery session will last approximately 15 minutes. Participants in the routine care group will receive the standard treatment and nursing care provided in the cardiac intensive care unit without guided imagery. Researchers will assess participants' anxiety, sleep quality, and comfort and compare the changes between the two groups.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 64 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 14 Aug 2026
- Start date
- Nov 2026
- Primary completion date
- Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University
- Diseases
- Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT07794358
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 64
- From Nov 2026 to the primary completion date, Jun 2027
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or respiratory support that interferes with communication.
- Receiving sedative treatment at a level that interferes with consciousness or communication.
Other illness
- Diagnosis of unstable angina pectoris.
- Diagnosed dementia or cognitive impairment that prevents understanding study instructions.
- Clinical or hemodynamic instability, including ongoing chest pain, significant dyspnea, hemodynamic instability, symptomatic serious arrhythmia, or need for urgent intervention.
- Active psychosis, severe agitation, or an active psychiatric disorder that prevents following the guided imagery instructions.
- Expected cardiac intensive care unit stay of less than two nights.
Other
- Confusion, delirium, or any alteration in consciousness that interferes with communication.
- Hearing loss that prevents following the audio instructions through headphones.
- Inability to communicate verbally.
- Refusal to participate or inability to provide informed consent.
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 years or older.
- Diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome, specifically ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).
- Admitted to and monitored in the cardiac intensive care unit.
- Expected to remain in the cardiac intensive care unit for at least two nights and to be transferred to a ward or discharged after the two-day study period.
- Clinically and hemodynamically stable, with no ongoing or increasing chest pain, significant respiratory distress, unstable vital signs, symptomatic serious arrhythmia, or need for urgent invasive intervention.
- Conscious, oriented to person, place, and time, and able to communicate verbally.
- Able to understand and speak Turkish.
- No hearing impairment that would prevent listening to the guided imagery audio recording through headphones.
- Sufficient cognitive ability to understand and respond to the study questionnaires.
- Willing to participate and able to provide written informed consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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