Comfort, Midwifery, Postpartum Period, Therapeutic Touch
Conditions
Keywords
Therapeutic Touch, comfort, midwifery, pain, postpartum period
Brief 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.
Interventions
OTHERTherapeutic Touch
Experimental group received deep Therapeutic Touch two time at 10th and 40nd hours after cesarean section.
Sponsors
Cukurova University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Masking description
Single blind
Intervention model description
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.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Analog Scale | Measurement was taken half an hour after the intervention. | The scale is scored between 0-10 points. As the score increases, the pain increases. |
| Postpartum Comfort Scale | Measurement was taken half an hour after the intervention. | The scale is scored between 34 and 170 points. As the score increases, comfort increases. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed