Women's Positive Birth Perception Awareness and Birth Experience

NCT ID: NCT05680272

Last Updated: 2025-01-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

72 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-02-15

Study Completion Date

2024-12-19

Brief Summary

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it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Detailed Description

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Since the existence of humanity, women have not been left alone during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period in all societies, but have been supported by their environment. In providing this support, midwives have important responsibilities as the primary responsible health professional . Quality midwifery care given at birth is very important for women to have a positive birth experience The biggest expectations of mothers from midwives in the birth and postpartum period are; it is approaching with empathetic communication such as smiling, therapeutic touch, listening, speaking in a language that the pregnant can understand, making oneself feel good, encouraging, informing, paying attention to privacy. Mothers whose expectations are met in labor; It can have positive obstetric outcomes such as shortening the delivery time, reduction in analgesia and medical intervention applications, positive birth experience, initiation of breastfeeding in the early period, mother-infant bonding and transition to the role of motherhood .

İt will contribute positively to the health indicators of the country and reduce the cost, a scale and guide have been prepared within the scope of this thesis, with the foresight that pregnant women and health workers need training materials, and training with interactive and mobile communication tools in this direction. has been planned.It is expected that the training to be given in line with the developed guideline, and the empathic communication-based training given in the third trimester of pregnancy will help to increase the awareness of women's positive perception of birth.

With this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Conditions

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Pregnancy Related

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SEQUENTIAL

education-centered randomized controlled experimental study
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

In the first stage of the research, it is planned to take a sample of at least 5-10 times the number of items of the scale planned to be developed. The sample size should be at least 200 to reveal the psychometric structure of the scale adequately, 300 and ideally over 500 to reveal the factor structure. In the second phase, it is aimed to reach at least 72 people, 36 in the intervention group and 36 in the control group.

Study Groups

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extrimental group

The experimental group will be given training on empathetic communication and the positive birth perception awareness scale will be applied to the experimental group.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

empathic communication-based education

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The study will consist of two stages. The first stage will be methodological in order to develop the Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale based on Empathic Communication, and the second stage will be a trial model with a pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effect of the training given to pregnant women based on empathic communication on positive birth perception awareness and birth experience.

control group

No intervention will be made in the control group.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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empathic communication-based education

The study will consist of two stages. The first stage will be methodological in order to develop the Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale based on Empathic Communication, and the second stage will be a trial model with a pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effect of the training given to pregnant women based on empathic communication on positive birth perception awareness and birth experience.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 18 years and older pregnancy

* Speaks and understands Turkish
* Able to read and write,
* Having a single fetus,
* Not having a risky pregnancy,
* 32-36. in gestational week,
* Pregnant women who do not have any disability diagnosed for normal delivery

Exclusion Criteria

* Risky pregnant women
* Pregnant women with communication difficulties
* Pregnant women with mental deficiency
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Emine Aksut Akcay

Lecturer

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sultan ALAN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Çukuroava Universty

Emine AKSÜT AKÇAY

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universty

Locations

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Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universty

Kahramanmaraş, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

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Other Identifiers

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TRKMARAŞ46

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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