Maternal Anxiety Related to How the Pediatrician Provided Prenatal Information About Preterm Birth (Infoprema)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preterm Birth

Treatments: Other: State of anxiety

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03646578

PI2017_843_0038

Details and patient eligibility

About

Women hospitalized for preterm labor require clear information about prematurity.

This study assessed whether or not specific written information about prematurity delivered at admission to the unit combined with an oral explanation from a pediatrician would decrease women's anxiety compared to an oral explanation alone. This was a prospective, single-center observational study.Women were included in the high-risk pregnancies department and distributed into two groups: receiving ''only oral'' information for a prenatal clinical consultation with a senior pediatrician or receiving ''combined'' oral information + a booklet about prematurity given to the women at admission. The primary endpoint was the change in anxiety-state (before and after the information procedure) evaluated by the State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y (STAI-Y).

Full description

Women hospitalized for preterm labor require clear information about prematurity.

This study assessed whether or not specific written information about prematurity delivered at admission to the unit combined with an oral explanation from a pediatrician would decrease women's anxiety compared to an oral explanation alone. Material and methods.This was a prospective, single-center observational study.Women were included in the high-risk pregnancies department and distributed into two groups: receiving ''only oral'' information for a prenatal clinical consultation with a senior pediatrician or receiving ''combined'' oral information

• a booklet about prematurity given to the women at admission.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients hospitalized in the service of pregnancies and having a risk of premature delivery.
• Term <34 SA

Exclusion criteria

• Term ≥ 34 SA
• no understanding of the questionnaire
• foetus presenting a pathology or malformation that is life-threatening
• patient presenting a risk of delivery before passing the pediatrician or presenting a risk of imminent delivery
• patient hospitalized without risk of premature delivery.