The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Pain and Comfort After Cesarean Section

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

90 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-01

Study Completion Date

2024-01-01

Brief Summary

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This study was conducted as randomized controlled study to evaluate the effect of Therapeutic Touch on acute pain and comfort level in women who delivered by cesarean section. Personal information form was used as data collection form, VAS was used to assess pain, and PPCQ was used to assess comfort. When power analysis was performed, the sample size was calculated to be at least 45 participants for each group (45 experiments, 45 controls). Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch by investigators two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.

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Detailed Description

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Cesarean section rate is increasing in the world and in our country, and it might bring other problems with it. Pain, breastfeeding problems and decrease in comfort problems have high chance to happen after cesarean section. The insufficiency of pharmacological methods in reducing the problems experienced after cesarean section and having many side effects increase the using percentage tendency to non-pharmacological methods.

This study was conducted as randomized controlled study to evaluate the effect of Therapeutic Touch on acute pain and comfort level in women who delivered by cesarean section. Personal information form was used as data collection form, VAS was used to assess pain, and PPCQ was used to assess comfort. When power analysis was performed, the sample size was calculated to be at least 45 participants for each group (45 experiments, 45 controls). Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch by investigators two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.

Conditions

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Therapeutic Touch Postpartum Period Midwifery Comfort

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

There is a difference between the posttest pain scores of the intervention group and the control group.

There is a difference between the comfort level posttest scores of the intervention group and the control group.

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Single blind

Study Groups

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Experimental

Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Therapeutic Touch

Intervention Type OTHER

Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.

Control

There will be no intervention in the control group. Routine maintenance will be given.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Therapeutic Touch

Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* • Those between the ages of 18 and 45

* Multiparous women
* At the 8th postoperative hour
* Women who have not developed any complications during pregnancy, birth and postpartum for themselves or their newborns.
* Having a single, healthy newborn at term,
* Does not react negatively to any attempt to touch,
* Able to speak and communicate in Turkish
* Agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

* Those with any problems diagnosed before or at birth (such as oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, heart disease, diabetes, placenta previa)
* Those who develop any complications related to mother and baby in the postpartum period (bleeding, hypertension, babies taken to the neonatal intensive care unit, etc.).
* Those who receive different analgesics other than routine post-operative analgesics (75 mg diclofenac sodium in the first 30 minutes post-op).

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

45 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes