Nulliparous Women and Education and Counseling

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: Education and counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05214846

2020/737

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression in nullipar women.

Full description

Pregnancy is a special process in a woman's life in which physiological, social and psychological changes occur. In this process, most women experience anxiety and depression, which are an important global health problem.The fear of uncertainty experienced by women who will become mothers for the first time may cause them to experience more anxiety/depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression of women.

This randomized controlled study was conducted at state hospital in northern Turkey , Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2022 and March 2022. Volunteer women undergoing polyclinic have been included. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A data collection form including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age, educational status, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used for each patient. After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were applied, the nurse gave individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. Participants in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (education and counseling) was performed.The IBM SPSS (Statistical package for the Social Sciences) 23.0 package program was used to evaluate the data obtained in the study.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A healthy pregnant woman over 18 years of age,
• without a diagnosed psychiatric disease,
• without mental disability and communication problems,
• at 28 weeks of gestation,
• nulliparous,
• without fetal anomaly,
• without risky pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• A healthy pregnant woman under 18 years of age,
• with a diagnosed psychiatric disease,
• with mental disability and communication problems,
• under 28 weeks of gestation,
• multiparous,
• with fetal anomaly,
• with risky pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Education and Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were applied, the nurse gave individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. Women were counseled for 6 weeks. Anxiety-depression levels (post-test) were applied by phone call 6 weeks later.This education consisted of the definition and the purpose of pregnancy and pregnancy problems and nutrition during pregnancy, sexuality during pregnancy, number of fetal movements, preparation of the delivery bag, breast care, etc.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education and counseling

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (education and counseling) was performed.The control group was called by phone at the end of 6 weeks and told that they would be retested and 6 weeks later, they were called by phone and their anxiety and depression levels (posttest) were applied. directed to continue