Ethical consideration during preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages
fracture, vomiting
This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committees of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Management and Medical Information Science at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (IR.SUMS.NUMIMG.REC.1400.001, approval date: 2021–06-08). The informed consent form was signed by all the participants. The patients were informed about the objectives, duration of the study, and side effects. They also were ensured that participating or not participating in the study was optional and that they could withdraw from the intervention whenever they wanted.The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 26. In this study, the type of anesthesia (general or spinal), site of fracture, use of analgesics in pre-, intra-, and post-operative stages, use or non-use of anti-emetic drugs in vomiting in recovery and in the post-operative ward were considered as confounding variables. The data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, ANCOVA, Chi-square, and Repeated Measure ANCOVA.