The Effect of Showing Fetal Images to High-Risk Pregnant Women on Stress and Sleep

Melike Nur SÖNMEZ

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy, High-Risk

Treatments: Other: Showing fetal images

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07260838

147-67/06.09.2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will be conducted to determine the effect of showing fetal images to high-risk pregnant women on pregnancy stress and sleep quality.

The study was conducted at Adana City Training and Research Hospital between November 2024 and May 2025 using a randomized controlled, interventional design. The sample of the study consisted of 35 intervention and 35 control group participants, totaling 70 individuals. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Pregnancy Stress Rating Scale (PSRS-36) and the Richard-Campbell Sleep Scale. The intervention group was shown fetal images three times a day for two days; the control group received no intervention. The collected data were analyzed by comparing the pre-test and post-test scores. The data obtained from the study will be evaluated using SPSS IBM 24.0 package program in computer environment.

Research Hypotheses:

In the intervention and control groups; H0-1: Showing fetal images to high-risk pregnant women has no effect on pregnancy stress.

H0-2: Showing fetal images to high-risk pregnant women has no effect on sleep quality.

H1-1: Showing fetal images to high-risk pregnant women has an effect on pregnancy stress.

H1-2: Showing fetal images to high-risk pregnant women has an effect on sleep quality.

Full description

This study was supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit (BAP) of Çukurova University, Project Code: [TYL-2025-17328].

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between the ages of 18 and 45
• Having an educational background of elementary school or higher
• Being at least 20 weeks pregnant
• Having a planned hospital stay of at least 3 days
• Being hospitalized for the first time during pregnancy
• Being able to speak Turkish
• Being able to communicate verbally

Exclusion criteria

• Having previously participated in the practice of viewing fetal images
• Diagnosis of mental illness
• Becoming pregnant through infertility treatment
• Presence of visual/hearing impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group (Fetal images were shown.)

Experimental group

Description:

The video containing fetal images will be shown to participants in the intervention group. Support will be obtained from the clinical doctor in preparing this video. At the clinic, each pregnant woman will have a video of her own fetus recorded using an ultrasound device in the examination room, and each pregnant woman will watch the video containing her own fetal images.

Treatment:

Other: Showing fetal images

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The researcher will not intervene with the pregnant women in the control group.