Overview
Aim: This study was planned to determine the effect of therapeutic touch applied at birth on pain, birth duration, traumatic birth perception and anxiety.
Description
Methods: The sample of this randomized controlled experimental research consisted of 66 (intervention group: 33; control group: 33) women. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, Visual Analogue Scale, State Anxiety Inventory and Traumatic Childbirth Perception Scale.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
Not having a high-risk pregnancy Having no health problems with the baby or herself Having
a single foetus Being about to have a vaginal delivery Not having a chronic physical or
psychiatric diagnosis Agreeing to participate in the research Not having communication and
perception problems Miad (37W<) pregnancy Having with induction application
Exclusion Criteria:
having vacuum, forceps etc. intervention such as