Open AccessDo Information Leaflets Effect Pre-Procedural Anxiety Level and Immediate Pain Level After Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections? A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
Author(s) -
Yeliz Bahar Özdemir,
Savaş Şencan,
Tülay Erçalık,
Serdar Kokar,
Osman Hakan Gündüz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ağrı
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2458-9446
pISSN - 1300-0012
DOI - 10.14744/agri.2020.27048
Subject(s) - oswestry disability index , medicine , epidural steroid injection , randomized controlled trial , anxiety , rating scale , depression (economics) , physical therapy , anesthesia , visual analogue scale , lumbar , surgery , low back pain , psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an informative leaflet provided to patients before a lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) on the level of immediate pain and pre-procedural anxiety.