Educational Intervention in the Fear-Avoidance Delivery (FADel_edu)

University of Malaga

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy Related

Treatments: Other: Prenatal education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03334097

UMA - 2017_FAD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this research is to study the responsiveness of the Spanish Version of Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire, Version A (WDEQ-A) in pregnant women after an educational intervention.

Full description

The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire is a self-report instrument designed to measure the fear of childbirth in terms of the woman's cognitive appraisal of childbirth, which is now the most commonly used measure of fear of childbirth. The version A, measures the fear before a delivery (WDEQ-A). It consists of 33 items on a 6-point Likert scale (0 = do not agree; 5 = totally agree). The total score ranges from 0 to 165; the higher the score, the greater the fear the pregnant women experience. A higher score (over 85) indicates a more intense fear of childbirth, and a score of over 100 is considered as a phobia; thus, the scale can measure individual degrees of fear among women before and after their deliveries In Spain, there is no specific instrument to test the effectiveness of different practices that are commonly used to reduce the fear of childbirth as the maternal education. Hence, after cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish of the questionnaire (WDEQ-A-Sp), the responsiveness after and educational intervention will be analysed.

Descriptive analyses will be applied to calculate means and standard deviations of the demographic variables. Distribution and normality will be determined by the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests (significance >0.05). Responsiveness will calculated following COSMIN requirements.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Spanish women living in Málaga, > 18 years old, 26-30 weeks pregnant, to fill all the items of the questionnaires, to perform sessions the Maternal Education Protocol in Malaga

Exclusion criteria

• No performin inclusion criteria. No voluntary participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental arm

Experimental group

Description:

There will only one experimental arm in order to study test-retest validity after having validate the questionnaire. The beginning of the maternal education takes place between 26 and 30 weeks of gestation and ends between 32 and 36 weeks of gestation. Hence, to study responsiveness, questionnaires will be filed at the beginning of the maternal education and after the two educational sessions related to childbirth.

Treatment:

Other: Prenatal education