Effect of Normal Birth Simulation and Podcast Training Given to Pregnant Women on Birth Fear, Belief and Self-Efficacy

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Fear of Childbirth; Childbirth Education

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06941493

GO 2025/1004

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health education is "educational practices carried out in order to provide individuals, families and society with a healthy lifestyle, to adopt and implement the measures to be taken to improve their health, to get them used to using the health services offered, to persuade them to improve their health and their environment, to make them reach a common decision and to direct them to action" . As in all stages of life, it is known that the trainings given during pregnancy contribute to the protection of maternal and infant health. The aim of childbirth preparation trainings given for a healthy pregnancy and birth process is to develop positive health behaviors in line with the needs of the person, to increase confidence in oneself and one's body, to reduce the stress caused by the fear and uncertainty associated with childbirth encoded since the past, to ensure the desire to give birth normally and to ensure secure mother-baby bonding. Although prenatal education has positive contributions to the pregnancy and birth process, it has been determined that the verbal expression of the teaching style of routine prenatal education leads to a passive acceptance without establishing a cause and effect relationship by weakening the learning effect and moving away from mutual interaction. In the study conducted by Downe et al. (2019), it was determined that routine prenatal education was insufficient to meet the information needs of women. It is thought that prenatal education prepared through simulation and podcast by utilizing the advantages of digital technology on health education can be useful in increasing women's beliefs and self- efficacy towards normal delivery, reducing their fear of childbirth, increasing their knowledge levels and eliminating misinformation. From this point of view, our study is aimed to bring innovation to the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of simulation and podcast education used in prenatal education on pregnant women's fear of childbirth, birth beliefs and birth self-efficacy.

he main questions it aims to answer are

Research question 1: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect fear of childbirth? Research question 2: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect birth self-efficacy? Research question 3: Does education for pregnant women affect birth beliefs? To see if the drug ABC treats severe asthma, the researchers will compare it to a placebo (a substance that looks like a drug, but does not contain one).

To assess the effectiveness of prenatal education, the researchers will Group 1 will be trained with simulated labor for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 2 will be shown podcast videos simulating childbirth for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 3 will be provided with routine prenatal education

Enrollment: 114 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria Able to speak, understand and write Turkish,

• Those between the ages of 18-35
• Spontaneous pregnancy,
• Primiparous pregnant women
• 30-34. week of pregnancy
• Any health problems (hypertension, heart, diabetes, tuberculosis, HIV, cancer, etc.) non-
• Singleton pregnancy
• Participating in routine pregnancy education class
• Having a phone with internet connection for training meetings Exclusion criteria from the study
• Pregnant women diagnosed with medium and high risk pregnancy (such as oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, heart disease, diabetes, placenta previa)
• Presence of any diagnosed psychiatric disease (such as anxiety, depression)

Trial design

114 participants in 3 patient groups

simulation training group

Description:

Normal birth simulation training will be given to this group for an average of 1 hour for 4 weeks in the simulation laboratory of Bucak School of Health.

podcast eğitim grubu

Description:

The podcast group will be sent a 20-minute podcast video in parallel with the simulation group for 4 weeks In the first session, the podcast file prepared by the researcher will be uploaded to the smartphones of the pregnant women and it will be checked that the file works smoothly. Pregnant women will be called in the relevant weeks to confirm whether they are watching the podcast and whether there are any problems.

control group

Description:

No intervention will be made to the control group by the research team, this group will only complete the standard prenatal education process in the pregnant class.