Mindfulness-based Prenatal Education on Women

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression, Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Hospital-based antenatal care; Behavioral: Mindfulness-based prenatal education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04693130

108-E-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences between stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infants bonding, salivary amylase activity, and postnatal maternal outcomes for prenatal mental disorders in women with mindfulness prenatal education program

Full description

The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of a Mindfulness prenatal education program in reducing pregnant women's perceived stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infant bonding, and salivary alpha-amylase compared to a control group. The investigators hypothesize that using the mindfulness prenatal education program by the study group will lead to improved related mood symptoms compared with the control group.

Randomized Controlled Trial comparing two education programs with health and singleton pregnant women is run by the Random Allocation Software (Saghaei, 2004). Use the G-Power 3.1.9 windows: repeated measures and between factors among two groups to calculate the number of samples, and setting the power = .8, α = .05, effect size = .25. The estimated number of samples may be lost 30%, total 102 samples.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects were at the age over 20
• Could speak and read Chinese fluently
• Willing and be ale to attend the education program

Exclusion criteria

• Taking medication for diagnosing mental illness
• With complicated or high-risk pregnancies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Mindfulness-based prenatal education

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention includes 3-hour classes per week during the duration of eight weeks and a 7- hour silent meditation practice as well.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based prenatal education

Hospital-based antenatal education

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Hospital-based antenatal education program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hospital-based antenatal care