Guided Imagery on Pregnancy Stress and Sleep Quality in Risky Pregnancy

Çukurova University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Effect of Guided Imagery Application on Pregnancy Stress and Sleep Quality in Risky Pregnant Women Will Be Checked

Treatments: Behavioral: Guided imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06610513

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Details and patient eligibility

About

In this thesis study, it is thought that with the guided imagery application to the hospitalized pregnant women, there will be a decrease in their stress levels and an increase in their sleep quality. In our country, there is no study where guided imagery application is used in risky pregnant women. It is thought that new information will be added to the literature as a result of this study. This study will be conducted to determine the effect of guided imagery application on pregnancy stress and sleep quality in risky pregnant women.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Education level should be primary school or above
• Being in the 20th week of pregnancy or above
• Being planned to stay in the hospital for at least 5 days
• Being hospitalized for the first time during pregnancy
• Being within the first 3 days of hospitalization
• Knowing and speaking Turkish
• Being able to communicate verbally

Exclusion criteria

1. Having had guided imagery before
2. Having a diagnosis of mental illness
3. Having become pregnant through infertility treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Guided imagery group

Experimental group

Description:

Guided imagery will be applied to risky pregnant women in addition to normal nursing care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Guided imagery

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Only routine nursing care will be provided to risky pregnant women.