Sexual Health Counseling Based on the BETTER Model

Lokman Hekim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexuality; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral: sexual health counseling based on the BETTER model

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05796180

NSIMALYAVUZ

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, the investigators wanted to examine the effect of sexual health counseling to women in the postpartum period on the quality of life of the participants.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primiparous,
• Weeks of gestation 37 weeks and over,
• Who had a singleton pregnancy,
• Having a sexual partner/partner,
• Having started sexual intercourse before starting training,
• Without a diagnosed chronic disease (DM, HT, Heart disease, etc.),
• Labour week 37 weeks and over
• 18 years or older,
• Able to speak and understand Turkish,

Exclusion criteria

• Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale score of 12 and above,
• To have received training on sexual health and family planning in a hospital or other health institution other than discharge training,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral: sexual health counseling based on the BETTER model

Experimental group

Description:

Sexual health counseling based on the BETTER model The content of the research will be discussed by face-to-face interviews with women who gave birth vaginally and applied to the hospital for birth control 8-10 weeks after delivery. Pre-evaluation forms will be applied to women who have agreed to participate in the study to evaluate the inclusion criteria. Women who meet the inclusion criteria will be divided into experimental-control groups using the block randomization method. An appointment will be made for interviews with the women in the experimental group. It is planned that these meetings will be held in the form of online video calls and will last an average of 45 minutes. The final tests will be held 8 weeks after the online meetings are over.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral: sexual health counseling based on the BETTER model

Control group: Routine postpartum care

No Intervention group

Description:

Routine postpartum care Women who gave birth vaginally and applied to the hospital for postpartum controls 8-10 weeks after delivery will be interviewed face-to-face with the women and the content of the research will be mentioned. Pre-evaluation forms will be applied to the women who accepted to participate in the study to evaluate the inclusion criteria. Women who meet the inclusion criteria will be divided into experimental-control groups using the block randomization method. Women in the control group will receive routine postpartum care administered in the hospital. Women in the control group will receive routine postpartum care administered in the hospital. Post-tests will be administered 8 weeks after the first interview.