THE EFFECT OF STAPLER VERSUS SKIN SUTURING ON PAIN AND WOUND HEALING AFTER EPISIOTOMY REPAIR IN PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Episiotomy
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 – 49
- Sex
- Female
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 24 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Ayşegül Kanık · Other
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About This Trial
This randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the effects of skin closure using surgical staplers compared with conventional skin sutures on postoperative pain and wound healing in primiparous women undergoing episiotomy repair after vaginal delivery.
Primiparous women who require episiotomy during vaginal birth will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: skin closure with staples or skin…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Age ≥ 18 years
* Term pregnancy (≥ 37 weeks)
* Low-risk pregnancy (no obstetric risk factors)
* Not receiving oxytocin induction during latent or active labor
* Singleton pregnancy with a live fetus
* No psychiatric disorder
* No substance abuse
* Primiparous women (first vagi…
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