Impact of Expressive Touching During Embryo Transfer

TC Erciyes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: IVF-ET

Treatments: Procedure: Expressive touching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06590636

1307/23

Details and patient eligibility

About

Infertile individuals report psychiatric symptoms and that their levels of anxiety and depression are significantly higher than in fertile controls .Thus,this study aimed to determine the effect of expressive touching during embryo transfer on the anxiety and pregnancy rate.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a diagnosis of primary infertility,
• Being over the age of 25 and under the age of 35
• Able to read and write Arabic,
• Women who will be applied assisted reproductive techniques such as IVF- ICSI-ET,
• Women with the same drugs and protocols used in IVF treatment was included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Women who have problems in understanding and perception,
• Having a diagnosis of secondary infertility wasn't included in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Infertile women

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Expressive touching

Control group

No Intervention group