Effect of Breathing Exercises on Embryo Transfer Outcomes

NCT07109544 | Active Not Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: eurofertil-breathing
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Breathing exercises are being used in many different clinical issues in the area of medicine. Also in gynecological practice, especially during labor, breathing exercises are encouraged by health professionals to aid the patients. These may have benefits of process of labor as it promises attenuating the anxiety and also relaxing the pelvic muscles. IVF, which may be one of most challenging times of couples, particularly women, is reported to be related with increased anxiety. Breathing exercises may potentially help women overcome anxiety before embryo transfer, a critical step in IVF. Being an easy and non-expensive approach, breathing exercises can be recommended in every IVF clinic. Thus, the investigators wanted to observe the effects of breathing exercises on embryo transfer results.

Conditions

Anxiety; Pregnancy Outcomes

Keywords

Breathing exercises; IVF; Embryo transfer; Anxiety

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pregnancy results after embryo transfer

  Blood samples will be taken for beta-HCG test

  12 days after the embryo transfer

Study Arms (2)

Therapy group

EXPERIMENTAL

The arm that the patients will receive breathing exercise therapy

Other: Breathing Therapy

Control Arm

OTHER

The patients with standart care

Other: Breathing Therapy

Interventions

Breathing Therapy OTHER

The patients in the control group will be receiving breathing therapy by a certificated clinical nurse

Control Arm; Therapy group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 40 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Only women having desire to achieve pregnancy who admitted to an IVF clinic
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• good quality blastocyst transfer

You may not qualify if:

• known psychiatric disorder
• history of recurrent implantation failure or pregnancy loss
• known genetik abnormalities
• known mullerian anomalies except for arcuate uterus
• PGT-a cycles

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eurofertil IVF Health Center: lead

Study Sites (1)

Bursa Eurofertil IVF Center

Bursa, 16000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Gerçek Aydın, Asst. Prof.

  Eurofertil IVF Health Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr, Embryologist

Model Details: As the possible effects of breathing exercises are planned to be analyzed, two groups are established. The groups are going to be formed by randomisation. While one group of patients will receive breathing exercises throughout their process , the control group patients will not.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 18, 2025
• First Posted: August 7, 2025
• Study Start: June 16, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 30, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 15, 2026
• Last Updated: August 7, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)