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NCT06999564
Effects of EFT on Postpartum Safety Perception, Anxiety, and Postoperative Pain After Cesarean Section
NA trial testing EFT in Pain Management in 60 participants. Completed in 13 December 2025.
1 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | KTO Karatay University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | double |
| Primary purpose | prevention |
| Enrollment | 60 |
| Start date | 2 June 2025 |
| Primary completion | 1 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 13 December 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across Turkey (Türkiye) |
Drugs / interventions tested
- EFT
Conditions studied
- Pain Management — all drugs for Pain Management →
- Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →
Sponsor
KTO Karatay University
Who can join
Adults 18 to 35, female only, with Pain Management or Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
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.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Verify against primary sources
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- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06999564 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by KTO Karatay University
- Last refreshed: 16 December 2025
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