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This review aimed to investigate non-pharmacological methods applied in pain and anxiety control caused by chest tube removal. In the study, 2168 researches, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and conference abstracts from Web of Science, Science Direct, OVID and Pubmed databases covering 2010-2020 period have been examined between January-May 2020 with the keywords "chest tube removal", "non-pharmacological method", "non-pharmacological intervention", "non-pharmacological therapy", "complementary therapy", "complementary medicine". The 1958 studies irrelevant with the subject were eliminated and metaanalysis, systematic review, non-experimental studies and conference abstracts (n=167) were selected among 240 studies, 10 experimental study samples used non-pharmacological methods were selected from 73 experimental studies. In pain control during chest tube removal; was effective in four of the five studies with cold application, in one of the two studies where cold application and music therapy were applied, in two studies where cold application and aromatherapy and relaxation therapy were applied, and in one study transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation applied. It was effective in studies in anxiety control with cold application and music therapy and aromatherapy application, and was not effective in one study with only cold application. It’s been concluded that non-pharmacological methods can reduce pain and anxiety levels of patients when performed alone or together.

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