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Effectiveness of SEFT Therapy on post op laparotomy pain in the operating room at RSI Agung Semarang

Susanto, M. · Medicalia Hospitalia · 2020

Controlled trial👥 36 participants⚖️ vs. control group receiving spiritual intervention without SEFTModerate rigor✓ Source-checked📍 Indonesia
In plain English. 36 patients recovering from abdominal surgery were split into a group that received SEFT tapping and a control group that received a spiritual intervention without tapping. The SEFT group's pain dropped notably more than the control group's. This is a quasi-experimental study with a comparison group, giving somewhat more confidence than an uncontrolled case series.

What they found

36
people took part

Mean pain scores dropped from 5.7 to 3.61 in the SEFT intervention group versus 5.61 to 4.77 in the control group, a significant difference in pain reduction between groups (p=0.0003), supporting SEFT for reducing post-operative laparotomy pain.

How the study worked

Who took partpost-operative laparotomy patients at Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital, Semarang, Indonesia (n=36)
What they didIn a controlled trial, a tapping group was compared against a separate comparison group.
Compared withcontrol group receiving spiritual intervention without SEFT
Measured withnumeric pain rating scale

💡 Where this could help

If this kind of post-surgical pain relief holds up in bigger trials, picture a patient recovering from abdominal surgery in a resource-limited hospital, taught a free, self-administered adjunct to standard post-op care that they can use themselves at the bedside to ease pain without additional medication. That could matter in settings where pain medication access or monitoring is limited.

🔬 What to study next

A larger trial should track objective post-operative markers alongside pain scores — cortisol and inflammatory markers reflecting the body's surgical stress response, and actual analgesic or opioid use rather than only the numeric pain rating. Testing SEFT at the bedside across multiple surgical wards, and following recovery speed (time to mobility, discharge) would show whether faster pain relief translates into faster physical recovery.

The full record

DesignControlled trial
Participants36 people
Populationpost-operative laparotomy patients at Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital, Semarang, Indonesia
Comparison groupcontrol group receiving spiritual intervention without SEFT
Outcome measuresnumeric pain rating scale
JournalMedicalia Hospitalia
Year2020
CountryIndonesia
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeStudy / trial
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source
Verification note. Author, institution, title, and journal (Medicalia Hospitalia / 'Med Hosp') and the directional finding (SEFT reduces post-op pain, statistically significant) are now confirmed from two independent sources. The DOI landing page itself was blocked by a site protection challenge on this pass, so the specific numeric figures (5.7->3.61 vs 5.61->4.77, p=0.0003) remain sourced only from the secondary bibliography, not re-confirmed from the primary article page directly -- left unchanged since no contradicting figures were found anywhere.

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Susanto, M. (2020). Effectiveness of SEFT Therapy on post op laparotomy pain in the operating room at RSI Agung Semarang. Medicalia Hospitalia. https://doi.org/10.36408/mhjcm.v7i1.429

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Other Physical Conditions 36 participants WHAT THEY FOUND Mean pain scores dropped from 5.7 to 3.61 inthe SEFT intervention group versus 5.61 to4.77 in the control group, a… Controlled trial · 36 participants Susanto · 2020 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com