Nursing CariesNLPNCT06493305
The Effect of NLP on Pain Before Uterine Curettage Due to the Fetal Demise
A study testing Neurolinguistic programming in people with Nursing Caries and Pain, Acute, run by Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
Pregnancy termination is a difficult and painful procedure can be done by medically or uterine curettage. Studies have been conducted to reduce the anxiety of women undergoing pregnancy termination, but there are no publications on topics such as anxiety, pain perception, and pain catastrophizing. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 55 years, women only
- Conditions the study is for
- Nursing Caries, Pain, Acute, Pregnancy Loss
- What is being tested?
- Neurolinguistic programming
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 100 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 2 Jul 2024to 4 Apr 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 55 years
- Women only
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult
Who may be able to join
- Over 18 years of age, non-pregnant, with an indication for pregnancy termination; Those who agreed to participate in the study, patients who understand and can speak Turkish
Who cannot join
- Patients who do not meet the inclusion criteria or who have had a previous pregnancy termination
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site
Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital
Sanliurfa
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Neurolingualistik Programming (NLP) on Pain Score, Fear of Pain and Pain Catastrophizing Before Uterine Curettage Due to the Fetal Demise
Pregnancy termination is a difficult and painful procedure can be done by medically or uterine curettage. Studies have been conducted to reduce the anxiety of women undergoing pregnancy termination, but there are no publications on topics such as anxiety, pain perception, and pain catastrophizing.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been called "the art and science of personal excellence", "the study of subjective experience". NLP helps us understand the difference between our actions that produce mediocre results or failure and those that require success or excellence.
Read more
NLP: "How do I do something I do well?", "How can I do it better?", "How can I gain skills that I admire in others? It addresses questions like ". It is important to note that NLP is not limited to observable behavior. Our way of thinking, that is, all experience and it also includes the mental processes that control our actions. By dealing with the entire structure of a person's experience (in fact, their motivation), it tries to shape the thought processes, emotions and beliefs that result in a behavior. It is especially about our communication with ourselves as well as with others.
No study was planned on pain and pain perception during pregnancy termination by uterine curettage by teaching the NLP technique to the patients.
Read the detailed description
In this randomized controlled study, the group of patients who underwent uterine curettage with the indication of pregnancy termination in the Septic Service of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Şanlıurfa Training and Research Hospital will be divided into two groups and NLP training will be given before uterine curettage in a double-blind manner and VAS (visual pain scale) after uterine curettage. Evaluation will be made using the fear of pain scale-3 and the pain catastrophizing scale. NLP training will be given for approximately 20 minutes, and the group that will not receive NLP training will remain silent for 20 minutes. The results will be compared.
- Conditions
- Nursing Caries, Pain, Acute, Pregnancy Loss
- Being tested
- Neurolinguistic programming
- Keywords
- NLP, uterin curettage, pain
- Medical subject headings
- Acute Pain, Pain
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Neurolinguistic programmingBehavioural
In the NLP application protocol, the visual, auditory and/or tactile representation system that the woman uses most frequently will be determined. Then, using the anchoring technique, the internal reactions and external reactions created by the woman's current symptoms and emotions and thoughts regarding the urination process will be combined using the anchoring technique. Existing negative emotions will be reduced and positive emotions will be reinforced. Then, with the swish technique, the intensity of the woman's existing negative emotions will be erased from the most frequently used visual, auditory or tactile representation system. Then, taking into account the representation system that the woman uses most frequently, the belief change model will be used in her negative thoughts about the current symptom, and her negative feelings and thoughts will be replaced by positive feelings and thoughts and reinforced.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| control group | No intervention | No intervention before, after pregnancy termination, pain scores and pain evaluation by questionnaires will be done. |
| intervention | Active comparator | Neurolinguistic programme will be done before uterine curettage for pregnancy termination, after this, pain scores and pain evaluation by questionnaires will be done. Receives: Behavioral: Neurolinguistic programming |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
VAS score, pain perception scale and pain catastrophizing scales scores
pain scale
Measured: 1 hour
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted9 Jul 2024
- Study start2 Jul 2024
- Primary completion1 Apr 2025
- Study completion4 Apr 2025
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Nursing CariesStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 100 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital
- Sponsor type
- Other government
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- alev esercan, MD, Study chair, Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06493305
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2024- Seah1
- Acronym
- NLP
- Status last verified
- Apr 2025
- First submitted
- 2 Jul 2024
- Last updated
- 6 Apr 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: by doi
Publications
Kilicli A, Demir I, Esercan A. Effect of neuro-linguistic programming applied prior to uterine curettage for fetal demise on pain score, fear of pain and pain catastrophizing: Randomized controlled trial. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2025 Sep;313:114592. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.114592. Epub 2025 Jul 21.
PubMed 40763452
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 6 Apr 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Neurolingualistik Programming (NLP) on Pain Score, Fear of Pain and Pain Catastrophizing Before Uterine Curettage Due to the Fetal Demise
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06493305
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- NLP / 2024- Seah1
- Conditions
- Nursing Caries, Pain, Acute, Pregnancy Loss
- Keywords
- NLP, uterin curettage, pain
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 100 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Sanliurfa Education and Research HospitalOther government
- Study start
- 2 Jul 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Apr 2025 (actual)
- Study completion
- 4 Apr 2025 (actual)
- First posted
- 9 Jul 2024 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Pregnancy termination is a difficult and painful procedure can be done by medically or uterine curettage. Studies have been conducted to reduce the anxiety of women undergoing pregnancy termination, but there are no publications on topics such as anxiety, pain perception, and pain catastrophizing.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been called "the art and science of personal excellence", "the study of subjective experience". NLP helps us understand the difference between our actions that produce mediocre results or failure and those that require success or excellence.
NLP: "How do I do something I do well?", "How can I do it better?", "How can I gain skills that I admire in others? It addresses questions like ". It is important to note that NLP is not limited to observable behavior. Our way of thinking, that is, all experience and it also includes the mental processes that control our actions. By dealing with the entire structure of a person's experience (in fact, their motivation), it tries to shape the thought processes, emotions and beliefs that result in a behavior. It is especially about our communication with ourselves as well as with others.
No study was planned on pain and pain perception during pregnancy termination by uterine curettage by teaching the NLP technique to the patients.
Detailed description
In this randomized controlled study, the group of patients who underwent uterine curettage with the indication of pregnancy termination in the Septic Service of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Şanlıurfa Training and Research Hospital will be divided into two groups and NLP training will be given before uterine curettage in a double-blind manner and VAS (visual pain scale) after uterine curettage. Evaluation will be made using the fear of pain scale-3 and the pain catastrophizing scale. NLP training will be given for approximately 20 minutes, and the group that will not receive NLP training will remain silent for 20 minutes. The results will be compared.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| control group | No intervention | –No intervention before, after pregnancy termination, pain scores and pain evaluation by questionnaires will be done. |
| intervention | Active comparator | Behavioral: Neurolinguistic programmingNeurolinguistic programme will be done before uterine curettage for pregnancy termination, after this, pain scores and pain evaluation by questionnaires will be done. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 55 years
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Over 18 years of age, non-pregnant, with an indication for pregnancy termination; Those who agreed to participate in the study, patients who understand and can speak Turkish
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Patients who do not meet the inclusion criteria or who have had a previous pregnancy termination
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Neurolinguistic programmingIn the NLP application protocol, the visual, auditory and/or tactile representation system that the woman uses most frequently will be determined. Then, using the anchoring technique, the internal reactions and external reactions created by the woman's current symptoms and emotions and thoughts regarding the urination process will be combined using the anchoring technique. Existing negative emotions will be reduced and positive emotions will be reinforced. Then, with the swish technique, the intensity of the woman's existing negative emotions will be erased from the most frequently used visual, auditory or tactile representation system. Then, taking into account the representation system that the woman uses most frequently, the belief change model will be used in her negative thoughts about the current symptom, and her negative feelings and thoughts will be replaced by positive feelings and thoughts and reinforced. | Behavioural | intervention |
Primary outcome
VAS score, pain perception scale and pain catastrophizing scales scores
Time frame: 1 hour
pain scale
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 6 Apr 2025.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 40763452Kilicli A, Demir I, Esercan A. Effect of neuro-linguistic programming applied prior to uterine curettage for fetal demise on pain score, fear of pain and pain catastrophizing: Randomized controlled trial. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2025 Sep;313:114592. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.114592. Epub 2025 Jul 21.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. by doi
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
alev esercan, MD study chair
Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Neurolinguistic programming in people with Nursing Caries and Pain, Acute, run by Sanliurfa Education and Research Hospital at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 6 Apr 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
VAS score, pain perception scale and pain catastrophizing scales scores (time frame: 1 hour). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06493305, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 6 Apr 2025.