Guided Imagery on the Perceived Stress Level in High-Risk Pregnancies

Nursel Alp Dal

Status: Completed

Conditions: High Risk Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: guided imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05021289

MunzurUn

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research was conducted to identify the effect of the practice of Guided Imagery on the perceived stress level in high-risk pregnancies.

Full description

Designed as a prospective randomized single-blind trial, the research was performed with the participation of a total of 128 women who had high-risk pregnancies and received inpatient treatment on 1 February - 1 May 2021 at the perinatology service of a maternity and children's hospital located in the Anatolian side of Istanbul province of Turkey (64 pregnant women in the experimental group, 64 pregnant women in the control group).

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:• Having a high-risk pregnancy

• Being aged 18 years or above
• Agreeing to participate in the study
• Being literate in Turkish

Exclusion Criteria:

• The pregnant women who voluntarily wanted to leave the research at any stage after being included in the study, could not communicate verbally, had a visual or hearing disorder, and were previously diagnosed with a psychiatric disease were excluded from the research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Guided İmagery

Experimental group

Description:

• participants were given one session of guided imagery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: guided imagery

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was applied on the control group patients.