The Effect of Emotional Support Given During Cesarean Section on Pain, Anxiety, and Surgical Fear

NCT ID: NCT06795828

Last Updated: 2025-01-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 120 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-31

Brief Summary

The study was conducted to determine the effect of emotional support given during cesarean section on pain, anxiety and surgical fear.

Detailed Description

The experimental study sample consisted of 120 women (emotional support group: 60, control group: 60). Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, Visual Analog Scale, State Anxiety Inventory and Surgical Fear Scale. In the comparison between the groups in the study, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean Visual Analog Scale scores of the women in the experimental and control groups in the pre-test (p<0.05), and no difference in the post-test (p˃0.05). In the post-test measured after emotional support, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the State Anxiety Inventory scores, short-term, long-term and total Surgical Fear Scale scores between the groups (p˂0.05). After emotional support, women's pain levels increased, anxiety and surgical fear levels decreased and their satisfaction with emotional support during birth increased. Women who did not receive emotional support had significantly increased pain, anxiety and surgical fear levels.

Conditions

Emotional Support During Cesarean Delivery

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Providing emotional support during a caesarean section

Empathetic approach, listening to the feelings and thoughts, welcoming the woman's behavior and expressions, telling her that she is breathing correctly, etc.), not judging the woman, being honest, using a soft and calm tone of voice, taking the baby or asking her opinion, encouraging her to endure the birth process, touching the woman and making physical contact, allowing her to practice her beliefs, showing the baby to the mother as soon as it is born and placing it in her arms.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional support group

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Women who met the inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study and were provided emotional support were administered the Personal Information Form, Visual Analog Scale, State Anxiety Inventory and Surgical Fear Scale via face-to-face interview method on the first day of their hospitalization before the caesarean section (pre-test). This application lasted 15-20 minutes. Enter a brief, descriptive title for this arm of the study.

Standard of care Group

The control group did not receive any treatment. Only Visual Analog Scale, State Anxiety Inventory and Surgical Fear Scale were applied (pre-test, post-test)

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Emotional support group

Women who met the inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study and were provided emotional support were administered the Personal Information Form, Visual Analog Scale, State Anxiety Inventory and Surgical Fear Scale via face-to-face interview method on the first day of their hospitalization before the caesarean section (pre-test). This application lasted 15-20 minutes. Enter a brief, descriptive title for this arm of the study.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women who had a history of spinal anesthesia for the first time during a cesarean delivery,
• Who were going to have a planned cesarean before spontaneous contractions started,
• Who had no health problems with their babies,
• Who had no physical or mental problems themselves,
• Who had no communication difficulties,
• Women who volunteered to participate were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Women who had a normal spontaneous delivery,
• Women who had a cesarean after labor/spontaneous contractions started,
• Women who had any health problems with their babies,
• Women who had a physical or mental illness themselves,
• Women who did not want to participate in the study were not included in the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 38 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Cumhuriyet University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sukran Ertekin Pinar

Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Sukran Ertekin Pinar, Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Cumhuriyet University

Locations

Sukran Ertekin Pinar

Sivas, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

TR SİVAS 06

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id