The Effects of Video-Based and Practical Newborn Bathing Education Provided to Primiparous Pregnant Women During the Third Trimester on Knowledge, Anxiety, and Bonding During the First Bath: a Randomized Controlled Trial (NewbornBathing)

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSU)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Newborn Bathing; Primiparous Pregnant Women; Bonding; Knowledge; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention group 2; Behavioral: Intervention group 1

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06661408

TUBITAK or KSU BAP (Other Identifier)

185

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental research design with pretest, posttest control group.

Full description

This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental research design with pretest, posttest control group.

Enrollment: 144 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Can speak and understand Turkish,
• 18 years of age or older,
• Literate,
• Primiparous,
• In the third trimester of pregnancy,
• A singleton pregnancy,
• No psychiatric illness,
• Who have not received any training on newborn bathing before,
• Her baby was not diagnosed with a fetal anomaly,
• With a smartphone and internet,
• Residing in the province of Kahramanmaras and
• Who agreed to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• Preterm labor (<37 weeks gestation),
• Stillbirth,
• The baby needs intensive care or is hospitalized,
• The baby has a low birth weight (<2500 grams),
• The one whose baby's first bath was given by someone else,
• A newborn bathing program was organized at the pregnancy school.
• Wishing to leave at any stage of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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144 participants in 3 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Pregnant women in the control group will be subjected to the routine hospital protocol without any other intervention. Pregnant women in this group are verbally informed about bathing during outpatient clinic follow-ups. After completing the post-test questions, the newborn bath application video will be transmitted to the women in this group on their phones and the disadvantageous situation of this group will be tried to be reduced.

Intervention group 1

Experimental group

Description:

The women assigned to this group will be shown the newborn bath application video prepared by the researchers in groups of 2-4 people in the form of a projection presentation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention group 1

Intervention group 2

Experimental group

Description:

In groups of 2, the researcher will first explain the stages of newborn bathing application by the researcher in the form of a projection presentation, and then the pregnant women will be provided to perform the newborn bathing application on the newborn bathing model and tools simultaneously with the researcher.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention group 2