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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Postpartum Depression

NCT04355091 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2020-08-10

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Summary

Hypothesis 1: Pregnant women in the EFT group will have a lower test score from Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale, and a follow-up score of three months and six months after the last application date, compared to the control group.

Hypothesis 2: In the post-test of pregnant women in the EFT group, three months and six months after the last application date, the optimistic, self-confident and social support approach methods used to deal with stress will increase, and the helpless and submissive approach styles will decrease compared to the control group.

Hypothesis 3: Pregnant women in the EFT group will have a lower test score from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and a follow-up score of three months and six months after the last application date, compared to the control group.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

It combines cognitive therapy, acceptance and stability therapy, and acupuncture point stimulation, and is based on manual stimulation of acupuncture points specific to Shiatsu or other acupressure massage forms, rather than using acupuncture needles.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neslihan Ozcan, Professor · Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-01
Primary Completion
2019-09-01
Completion
2020-04-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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Diseases

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