NCT06062160

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cukurova University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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

• Therapeutic Touch
• Postpartum Period
• Midwifery
• Comfort

Interventions

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

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2024-01-01
• First posted: 2023-10-02
• Last updated: 2025-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)