The Effectiveness of Stress Ball in Managing Anxiety and Pain During Prostate Biopsy

Launched by HITIT UNIVERSITY · Aug 1, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is exploring whether using a stress ball can help reduce feelings of anxiety and pain during a prostate biopsy, which is a medical test where a small sample of prostate tissue is taken for examination. The study is looking specifically at men aged 65 to 74 who are having their first prostate biopsy. To take part, men need to be awake, able to read and hear well, free from mental health or neurological issues, and physically able to squeeze a stress ball with their hands.

If you join the study, you will be asked to use a stress ball during your biopsy to see if it helps you feel less anxious or uncomfortable. This study has not started recruiting participants yet, so if you meet these criteria and are interested, you may have the chance to participate once it begins. It’s important to know that the study is voluntary, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Gender

MALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who come to the Urology Service for a prostate biopsy, are willing to participate in the study, are over 18 years of age, are conscious, literate, have no visual or hearing impairments, no psychiatric diagnoses or neurological problems, are undergoing a prostate biopsy for the first time, and do not have weakness in their hands or arms to squeeze a ball will be included.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who do not volunteer to participate in the study, who wish to withdraw from the study, who are under 18 years of age, who are unconscious, illiterate, visually or hearing impaired, who have a psychiatric diagnosis or neurological problem, who have previously had a prostate biopsy, and who have weakness in the hand or arm for the ability to squeeze a ball will be excluded from the study.