Guided Imagery: Reducing Stress and Improving Well-being in Pregnant Adolescents

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Guided Imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02636374

2015-0105

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a guided imagery intervention on perceived stress in pregnant adolescents.

Full description

Pregnant adolescents attending a local alternative education program will be subjects of this study. Students will participate in four, 15 minute guided imagery sessions over about a 4-6 week period. They will complete a pregnancy specific stress questionnaire before beginning and after completion of the guided imagery protocol. The students will also complete a short 9-question stress measure before and after each of the individual guided imagery sessions.

The specific aims are:

1. to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention reduces perceived stress in pregnant adolescents; and
2. to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention enhances well-being in pregnant adolescents.

The hypotheses are that the intervention will reduce perceived stress and enhance well-being in these subjects. The purpose of this study is to assess whether employing a guided imagery intervention with pregnant teens and education will reduce perceived stress levels and improve well-being.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 13 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All pregnant students ages 13-21 enrolled in the alternative education program for parenting teens were eligible to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Participants were excluded from the study if they delivered their babies prior to completing four sessions of guided imagery intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 1 patient group

Guided Imagery

Experimental group

Description:

Participants listened to a pregnancy-specific guided imagery recording on four separate occasions during their pregnancies. Perceived stress was measured immediately pre and post each listening session using the Perceived Stress Measure-9 (PSM-9).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Guided Imagery