Effects of EFT on Postpartum Safety Perception, Anxiety, and Postoperative Pain After Cesarean Section

NCT06999564 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: EFT AND CESAREAN SECTION
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is a parallel randomized controlled trial on 60 primiparous women with cesarean section pain, randomly divided into EFT and control groups. The study was approved by KTO Karatay University Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee. Women will be included in the study according to the following criteria: at least primary school graduate, primiparous, planned cesarean section and 4 or more postoperative pain according to VAS. Women with chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, history of miscarriage, placenta previa, mental illness in the past year, psychoactive drug use, drug addiction, smoking, and pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, bleeding, intrauterine death and preterm delivery will be excluded. Data collection will start in June 2025 and will be completed in August 2025.

Conditions

Pain Management; Anxiety

Keywords

caesarean section; anxiety; sense of course

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• EFT for women who had a planned caesarean section

  Face-to-face EFT will be applied to mothers in the period after cesarean delivery in order to examine the effect of EFT application between 0-24 hours on womens pain level.

  0-24 hour

• 2. EFT for women with a planned cesarean section

  Description: By applying EFT face-to-face to mothers in the period after cesarean delivery, the effect of EFT application between 0-24 hours on women's anxiety levels will be examined.

  0-24 hour

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• 3.EFT for women with a planned cesarean section

  0-24 hour

Study Arms (2)

EFT

EXPERIMENTAL

Three sessions of face-to-face EFT will be applied to mothers who will have a planned cesarean section three days before delivery. In order to examine the effect of EFT on women's feelings of security, anxiety and pain levels after childbirth, face-to-face EFT will be applied to mothers in the postpartum period after cesarean section.

Behavioral: EFT

CONTROL

NO INTERVENTION

No application was made to the control group. Following the pre-test application, VAS, SUI and STAI-I-SATAI-II post-test data will be applied before and after cesarean delivery. After the data were reported, EFT was applied to the women in the control group individually by the researchers.

Interventions

EFT BEHAVIORAL

EFT involves the following steps: 1. Identification of the problem that is causing the person distress (e.g., fear of childbirth) and scoring or measuring the severity of this problem. 2. Tapping with the fingertips on certain points of the face and body, known as correction (i.e., regulation of the energy system), as well as the expression of an emphatic phrase (related to the person\'s problem and self-acceptance).

EFT

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: will be performed with women who have had a planned caesarean section
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• primary school graduate
• primiparous
• planned cesarean section
• Postoperative pain of 4 or more according to VAS.

You may not qualify if:

• Heart disease
• high blood pressure
• chronic diseases such as diabetes
• history of miscarriage
• placenta previa
• mental illness in the last year
• use of psychoactive drugs
• drug addiction
• cigarette smoking
• preeclampsia
• bleeding
• intrauterine death
• premature birth

Sponsors & Collaborators

• KTO Karatay University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hafize Dağ Tüzmen

Konya, 4200, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Agnosia; Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Perceptual Disorders; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Mental Disorders

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: While the pre-tests and post-tests of the study will be administered by a researcher who does not know which groups the participants are assigned to, they will be administered by the lead researcher who is an expert in EFT and the results will be reported by a blind statistician.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Asst.Prof.

Model Details: This study is a parallel randomized controlled trial on 60 primiparous women with cesarean section pain randomly allocated to EFT and control groups. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of KTO Karatay University Faculty of Medicine. In addition, the protocol of this study was registered in the Clinical Trials Register. All participants gave written informed consent before data collection. Women were included according to the following criteria: at least primary school graduate, primiparous, planned cesarean section, and postoperative pain of 4 or more according to VAS. Women with chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, history of miscarriage, placenta previa, mental illness in the past year, use of psychoactive drugs, drug addiction, smoking, and pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, bleeding, intrauterine death and preterm delivery were excluded.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 13, 2025
• First Posted: May 31, 2025
• Study Start: June 2, 2025
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2025
• Study Completion: December 13, 2025
• Last Updated: December 16, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: June and was completed in August 2025

Locations

TU (1)