The Effect of Guided Imagery Technique on Anxiety, Pain, and Analgesic Use in Total Joint Arthroplasty Patients

Intervention is a guided imagery technique designed for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty. It will be administered in a total of 4 sessions: once daily on the day before surgery, twice daily on the day of surgery, and once daily on the 2nd and 3rd days after surgery, accompanied by imagery scenarios developed in accordance with the Compact Disc (CD) and literature developed by the Turkish Psychological Association. The study aims to examine its effects on surgical anxiety levels, postoperative pain intensity, and analgesic consumption. This approach is structured as a non-pharmacological method specific to surgical nursing practice and differs from previous similar studies in that it is applied in both the preoperative and postoperative periods using the same sample in the literature.