The Effect of Baby Care Training Given to Fathers After Birth (Babycare)

Hitit University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fathers; Mothers

Treatments: Other: Training group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05588089

Hitituniversity

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to provide infant care training to fathers and to measure father-infant attachment and maternal postpartum depression and quality of life.

Full description

Objective: The aim of this study is to provide infant care training to fathers and to measure father-infant attachment and maternal postpartum depression and quality of life.

Design: The data for the study were collected using the introductory information form (IIF) and the father-infant attachment scale (FIAS) for fathers, Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale and Postpartum Quality of Life Scale for mothers.

Participants and setting: A total of 64 fathers and 64 mothers, including 32 in the intervention group and 32in the control group who met the inclusion criteria of the study were included randomly.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The mother and father are over 18 years old,
• Parents becoming parents for the first time,
• The newborn is healthy, born at term, with the mother and father,
• Parents' knowledge of Turkish,
• Mothers who accepted to participate in the study and received baby care training by participating in the pregnant class,
• Parents' willingness to participate in the research.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a baby born as a result of a risky pregnancy,
• The newborn is in intensive care,
• Presence of diagnosed psychiatric disease in the mother and father.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

After the birth of the control group, the "Personal Information Form for Fathers" and "Infant Care Questionnaire" were applied to the fathers as pre-tests in the clinic. After the training, the fathers will be called at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th and 12th weeks, and the "Fathers' Participation in Baby Care Chart" will be applied 5 times during 12 weeks. In addition, "Father-Infant Attachment Scale" and "Infant Care Questionnaire" were applied to fathers at 12 weeks as posttests. "Personal Information Form for Mothers" will be filled by mothers in the postpartum clinic, mothers are called at 4th, 8th and 12th weeks and "Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale" and "Postpartum Quality of Life Scale" are applied.

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

For the experimental group, "Personal Information Form for Fathers" and "Infant Care Questionnaire" were applied to the fathers in the clinic after birth as a pre-test. In the clinic, baby care training was given to fathers practically in 30-35 minutes. After the applied training, the "Baby Care Training Program Content" prepared by the researchers was given to the fathers. After the training, the fathers were called at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th and 12th weeks, and the "Paternals' Participation in Baby Care Chart" was applied 5 times during 12 weeks. In addition, the fathers were called at the 12th week and the "Infant Care Questionnaire Form" was applied as a post-test and the "Father-Infant Attachment Scale" was applied. "Personal Information Form for Mothers" was applied to the mothers after the birth in the clinic, and the mothers were called at the 4th, 8th and 12th weeks and the "Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale" and the "Postpartum Quality of Life Scale" were applied.

Treatment:

Other: Training group