The Effect of Stress Ball and Expressive Touch Application
NCT ID: NCT06740734
Last Updated: 2024-12-18
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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
NA
105 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2025-01-01
2025-04-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Episiotomy procedure is observed to affect sexual health in the short term; pain, anxiety, limited mobility, difficulties in micturition and defecation . In the long term, it is seen that the fear of episiotomy in pregnant women increases the rate of elective cesarean section . The use of sleep-inducing drugs to reduce pain during episiotomy repair can cause side effects such as changes in fetal heart rate and decrease in maternal blood pressure . Evidence-based practices recommend the use of various nonpharmacological methods to reduce pain during episiotomy repair . Evidence-based practices support stress ball and expressive touch in pain management .
Stress ball; is a nonpharmacological method that reduces the feeling of pain by pulling pain-related receptors in the brain to another point.In the literature, stress ball is seen to be used to reduce pain during endoscopy , peripheral intravenous catheter application ,, and gynecological procedures .Again, expressive Touch is an approach that aims to regulate, increase, balance and protect energy to heal diseases or symptoms caused by imbalance in vital energy fields .It is a consciously directed energy exchange in which the practitioner uses their hands as a focal point to facilitate the process .It has been reported in the literature that expressive touch reduces women's pain in labor .Women in labor and early postpartum need verbal and nonverbal communication from midwives .
Reducing pain during episiotomy repair is available in the literature .However, there are limited studies on long-term results .. In the current literature, it was aimed to determine the effects of stress ball and expressive touch application on pain, mobilization and breastfeeding during episiotomy repair and to pioneer future research. It is thought that the results obtained in this study will significantly contribute to women's positive birth experiences and the development of midwifery practices.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
Implementation process
* Group 1; Stress ball
* Group 2 Expressive touch after cesarean
* Control Group will be given routine care.
Study Group 1: Sterile Stress ball during mediolateral episiotomy repair for pregnant women who received stress ball application. Participants in the stress ball group will be asked to squeeze and loosen the stress ball in their hand (Ozen et al., 2023).
Group 3 -Those who received expressive touch During mediolateral episiotomy repair, expressive touch will be applied to one of the mother's hands by the researcher for an average of 15-20 minutes (Association, 2023.).
In the Control Group The women in the control group receiv
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
TRIPLE
Study Groups
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Control Group
The group will be given routine care
No interventions assigned to this group
Stress ball
Sterile Stress ball applied to pregnant women during mediolateral episiotomy repair. Participants in the stress ball group will be asked to squeeze and loosen the stress ball in their hands
Stress ball
Sterile Stress ball for pregnant women during mediolateral episiotomy repair. Participants in the stress ball group will be asked to squeeze and loosen the stress ball in their hands.
Expressive touch applications
During the mediolateral episiotomy repair, expressive touch will be applied to one hand of the mother by the researcher, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes.
Expressive touch applications
During the mediolateral episiotomy repair, expressive touch will be applied to one hand of the mother by the researcher, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes
Interventions
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Stress ball
Sterile Stress ball for pregnant women during mediolateral episiotomy repair. Participants in the stress ball group will be asked to squeeze and loosen the stress ball in their hands.
Expressive touch applications
During the mediolateral episiotomy repair, expressive touch will be applied to one hand of the mother by the researcher, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
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Exclusion Criteria
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18 Days
35 Days
FEMALE
Yes
Sponsors
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Mine Gokduman Keles
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Mine Gokduman Keles
Asst.Prof. Mine GÖKDUMAN KELEŞ PhD. Midwifery Department
Central Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Unive
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id