Clinical trials: Taction
Intraoperative Complications
The Effect of Therapeutic Touch Applied During Knee Replacement Surgery on Anxiety, Vital Signs and Comfort Level
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of therapeutic touch on patients' anxiety, vital signs and comfort levels during knee replacement surgery performed under local anesthesia.
- Trial name
- NCT06426381
- Testing
- Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dilek GÜRÇAYIR
Depressive Symptoms Mild to Moderate in Severity
Therapeutic Touch and Acupressure on Depressive Symptoms
Therapeutic touch intervention Participants in the therapeutic touch group received eight sessions over four weeks (two sessions per week), with each session lasting approximately 20 minutes.
- Trial name
- Postmenopausal (NCT07532512)
- Testing
- Therapeutic touch intervention, Acupressure intervention
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 156 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Pain, Impairment, Light Touch Sensation
The Phonophoresis of Lidocaine Gel and Its Effect on Sensory Blockage
The optimisation of drug absorption through skin is of great value in modern therapy.Phonophoresis is the use of therapeutic ultrasound to increase percutaneous drug absorption.
- Trial name
- NCT01404468
- Testing
- pulsed ultrasound device with lidocaine, off device, continuous ultrasound device with lidocaine
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 93 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Critical Illness, Stress
Effects of a Psycho-cognitive Nursing Intervention on Patients' Outcomes in Critical Illness
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a psycho-cognitive nursing intervention including relaxation, guided imagery, touch and music listening can improve the clinical and psychological outcome of critically ill…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Stress, Inflammatory Response
- Trial name
- NCT02423252
- Testing
- Massage, Relaxation, Guided imagery and music listening., No Intervention
- Where
- Cyprus
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr Elizabeth Papathanassoglou
Balance, Postural, Gait
The Influence of Manual Therapy Applied to the Cervical Spine in the Prevention of Balance Disorders in the Elderly
Falling is a major trauma that can occur with aging, leading to very significant psychological and physical health effects with financial and societal consequences.
- Conditions
- Balance, Postural, Gait, Elderly
- Trial name
- ManEq (NCT05475652)
- Testing
- Manual therapy
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- EZUS-LYON 1
Therapeutic Touch
The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Agitation, Pain, and Cortisol Levels in Intensive Care Patients
Intensive care units (ICU) are special clinical areas where advanced monitoring and treatment of patients with life-threatening organ failure or those at risk of developing organ failure are carried out, with high technological…
- Trial name
- NCT07061340
- Testing
- Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Firat University
Dentistry, Education
Exploring the Impact of Fully Guided Implant Placement on Classifying Bone Quality Through Tactile Sensation
Bone quality stands as a crucial determinant impacting the success rate of dental implants, exerting influence on both implant primary stability and the efficacy of osseointegration.
- Trial name
- NCT06349421
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Infertility
Usability Study of the Focus Touch™ Conception System: Semen Collection
This is a human factors usability study designed to validated usability by obtaining feedback in a home use environment regarding ease of use of the Focus Touch™ Conception System Conceptacle (when used to collect semen) and the…
- Trial name
- Ib2C (NCT01585012)
- Testing
- Cervical cap (Focus Touch™ Conception System)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rinovum Women's Health, Inc.
Infant, Newborn, Disease, Pain, Acute
Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of white noise and therapeutic touch on pain in newborn heel blood collection.Questions including the sex of the newborns, postnatal age, gestational age, birth weight, height, head…
- Trial name
- NCT05510271
- Testing
- White Noise, Yakson Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 65 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ataturk University
Depression
The Effect of Foot Reflexology and Therapeutic Touch on Fatigue, Depression and Quality of Sexual Life in Women
This study aims to examine the effects of foot reflexology and therapeutic touch on fatigue, depression and sexual quality of life in women receiving hemodialysis treatment.
- Trial name
- NCT06411652
- Testing
- Reflexology, Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Telerehabilitation, Posture
the Effect of Web-based Exercises on Postural Deformities
this study aims to investigate the effect of telerehabilitation with web-based exercises on postural deformities in individuals with postural problems. This randomized controlled study is planned to include 40 individuals.
- Conditions
- Telerehabilitation, Posture, Lordosis, Kyphosis
- Trial name
- NCT06964750
- Testing
- Exercise, home based exercise
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hacettepe University
Birth Trauma
The Effect of Stress Ball and Expressive Touch Application
Purpose: The study will be conducted to examine the effects of stress ball and expressive touch application on pain, mobilization and breastfeeding during episiotomy repair.
- Trial name
- NCT06740734
- Testing
- Stress ball, Expressive touch applications
- Volunteers
- 105 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mine Gokduman Keles
Preterm, Pain
The Effect of Touch Methods on Pain and Physiological Parameters in Preterm Infants During Endotracheal Aspiration
Recurrent and painful interventions such as heel lancing, venipuncture, dressing change, endotracheal aspiration are frequently performed in neonatal intensive care units (NICU).
- Conditions
- Preterm, Pain, Infant ALL
- Trial name
- NCT05784857
- Testing
- Touch Methods
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Acibadem University
Healthy
Auditory, Visual, and Tactile Interactions During Active, Dynamic Touch
Even though extensive research on the multisensory integration of auditory and visual stimuli has been carried out, the mechanisms of integration of tactile stimuli with other senses remain less known and understood.
- Trial name
- INTOUCH (NCT05943392)
- Testing
- EEG recording, Psychophysics (behavioural experiments)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Université Catholique de Louvain
Obesity
Pregnancy-Related Obesity Prevention Through Education & Communication Technology in AFRICA:The PROTECT-AFRICA STUDY
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether overweight but not obese pregnant African women having unlimited access to a health education-information technology (IT) based intervention package gain weight within the…
- Trial name
- PROTECT-AFRI (NCT01948323)
- Testing
- HEDUAfrica IT package+ standard care
- Where
- 2 sites in South Africa
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Cape Town
Preterm Birth, Parent-Child Relations
Biological Underpinnings of Socio-emotional Regulation in Preterm Infants and Healthy Controls
Preterm infants (PT) often need to spend their first weeks of life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where they are exposed to several adverse conditions.
- Conditions
- Preterm Birth, Parent-Child Relations, Epigenetics
- Trial name
- NCT05253924
- Testing
- DNA methylation of target genes, EEG acquisition
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 76 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Amputation
Virtual Neuroprosthesis: Restoring a Sense of Touch to Amputees
The overall goal of this project is to develop a virtual neuroprosthesis in which a facsimile of a neural implant is externalized and housed in a well-controlled microfluidic chamber, thereby abating the intrinsic limitations of…
- Trial name
- NCT03581448
- Testing
- Sensory Restoration During Prosthesis Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida Atlantic University
Pleasant Touch, Cortical Response
GentleTouch (Study to Evaluate Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) Responses to Affective Touch and How it Develops in Healthy Term Babies)
This study will attempt to measure the direct effect of pleasant skin touch on the developing infant brain. The massage intervention stimulates a specific class of unmyelinated C-fibres in the skin called C-touch (CT) afferents…
- Trial name
- NCT03731195
- Where
- 2 sites in Ireland, United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College Cork
Stress
Comparative Effectiveness of Stress Management
Many formerly homeless adults with chronic mental illness experience treatment resistant symptoms for which pharmaceutical agents and cognitive behavioral therapy are not effective.
- Trial name
- NCT03203902
- Testing
- Psychoeducation and Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Facial Wrinkles, Skin Aging
Cryo-Touch III Refinement Study Investigational Plan
This is a prospective, non-randomized study to evaluate the performance of the MyoScience Cryo-Touch III device for the treatment of glabellar and/or forehead wrinkles.
- Trial name
- NCT01379365
- Testing
- Cryo-Touch III
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc