Focusing on the Maryam's Flower During the Birth

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor Pain

Treatments: Other: Focusing on Maryam's Flower

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06128759

2022/294

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the Effect of Focusing on the Virgin Mary Flower during the Birth Process on Labor Pain, Labor Duration and Perceived Fatigue in Birth.

Method: The study will be completed in a randomized controlled manner with a total of 126 primiparous pregnant women, 63 in the experimental group and 63 in the control group. Pregnant women in the experimental group will focus on the Virgin Mary flower in the water-filled jar and imagine that their uterus and birth path are opening like the branches of the Virgin Mary flower that blooms as labor pains come. There will be no intervention in the control group other than routine midwifery care. Research data will be collected with the Pregnant Introduction and Birth Process Follow-up Form, Visual Analog Scale, and Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue.

Full description

Design and Settings: This randomized controlled experimental study will conducted in the delivery room of the, Turkey between the dates of November 2023 and April 2024

Enrollment: 126 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 18 years or older,
• being in 37-42 weeks of pregnancy,
• being primiparous,
• having a single healthy fetus,
• cervical dilatation not more than 3 cm.the one which,
• in the first stage of labor,
• Does not have any complications preventing vaginal birth,
• volunteer women who do not have disabilities in communication and perception

Exclusion criteria

• maternal and fetal complications
• pregnant with assisted reproductive techniques,
• having a presentation anomaly,
• having a twin pregnancy,
• electing cesarean section,
• Women whose cervical dilatation exceeds 3 cm and who are not willing to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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126 participants in 2 patient groups

Maryam's Flower Group

Experimental group

Description:

Maryam's flower will place in a bowl of water and left in the room of the pregnant women who will at 1 cm cervical dilatation and in the first phase of the labor. It will explain to the pregnant women that the leaves of the plant would open up in the water, and they will ask to imagine that the birth canal would simultaneously open up. In effect, they will told to focus on the opening of these leaves during the course of the labor.. After birth, the flower used only as a focusing method will be removed from the water and its water will be poured.

Treatment:

Other: Focusing on Maryam's Flower

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

will provided with standard midwifery care.