IRCT201404278589N3 IRCT 2014-11-04 Vice chancellor for research Mashhad University of Medical Sciences The effect of communicating with patient before anesthesia on pain and agitation Clinical trial comparing the effects of patient communication before general anesthesia on post-operation pain and agitation of patients after endoscopic sinus surgery in the recovery room 2011-05-23 anticipated 61 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/9097 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Double blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Prevention. N/A acute pain and agitation. Intervention 1: Intervention1: The patients of case group were involved in a 15-20 minutes of informative and supportive communication once in the night before the surgery and once again for 5-10 minutes just before the surgery. All of the informative and supportive plans were designed by psychologists and anesthesiologist. Supportive communication plan include; the researcher introduces his/her self and asks the patients about their name, job, education, experience of their previous surgery. The researcher encourages the patients to express their feeling and anxiety about their surgery. Also assures the patients about their complete coverage during surgery. And says that there is not any facial incision in your face in this surgery. We have not had any mortality in this kind of surgery in this hospital. Informative communication plan; the Patients are informed about general anesthesia and its equipment such as mask, anesthesia machine, ambo bag, monitoring, common side-effects that may occur during anesthesia, post-op pain, nausea, vomiting and how to control them. Also they are informed about how improve their breathing with closed nasal way and when they can eat and drink after surgery. They are informed about intra nasal pack (two days after surgery is removed) and some others routine actions (washing their nose with normal saline). Intervention 2: Intervention2: The patients of control group did not receive any informative and supportive communication and were only treated with routine OR procedures. If they had some questions, the stuffs answered to patient’s questions.