Effect of Antenatal Education on Fear of ChildBirth

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear of Childbirth; Stress

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05584618

08.06.2022-73

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of antenatal education on birth fear, depression, anxiety, stress, maternal self-efficacy, and mode of delivery in primiparous pregnant women

Full description

There is still a lack of evidence regarding the effects of antenatal education on birth fear, maternal self-efficacy, anxiety, stress, depression, and mode of delivery. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of antenatal education on birth fear, anxiety, stress, depression, maternal self-efficacy, and mode of delivery

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Literate
• Childbirth at fullterm (born at 38-42 weeks)
• Nulliparous women
• Women between the ages of 18-35
• Singleton pregnancy in 20 and 36 weeks of gestation
• Having a healthy newborn
• No participation in another prenatal program
• Absence of any psychiatric illness or comorbidities
• No use medications for a diagnosed mental disorder
• Baby with normal birth weight and APGAR score of 8 and above
• Women who have not developed postpartum complications
• Women without complicated/high-risk pregnancies, who do not experience a perinatal death or stillbirth
• Speaks and understands Turkish
• Women with a total fear of childbirth score W-DEQ-A ≥60 will be included.
• Women who give birth through vaginal route

Exclusion criteria

• Women who do not meet the sample selection criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The women allocated in experimental group will be given antenatal education for 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Education

control

No Intervention group

Description:

The women allocated for the control group will receive prenatal care services routinely provided at the outpatient clinics of the same hospital