Effect of Self-affirmation Versus Back Massage on Psychological Distress and Fear of Birth Among Primigravid Women in Third Trimester

NCT ID: NCT05883501

Last Updated: 2023-06-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-10-20

Brief Summary

Based on the literature review, care must be emphasized on aspects of self-strengthening or self-affirmation to reduce stress and fear and equip women with the ability to manage stress and fear due to negative thoughts. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate and compare the effects of self-affirmation versus back massage on psychological distress and fear of birth among primigravid women in third trimester.

Conditions

Self-affirmation, Back Massage

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Group I

Pregnant women will be given love cards containing positive affirmations that will be trained outside the classroom by asking the mother to practice alone once a day between waking up, before bed, or when relaxing.

The suggestions will be implanted using simple language, easy to understand, in detail, and straightforward. For example, "From now, I know how to take care of myself in pregnancy and trust in my ability to birth my baby."

Love cards will be developed through literature studies and expert tests containing positive affirmations for pregnancy and childbirth.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Self-affirmation versus back massage

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Self-affirmation is non-pharmacological intervention which represents structured sentences to convey to the subconscious mind to help in reprogramming negative thoughts into positive ones.

Massage is defined as systematic touch of soft tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as pain relief, increased comfort and patient's relaxation

Group 2

The researcher will be used the heel of the hands, moving along the spine; using the palms moving hands with rocking movements from the top of the shoulder blade to the backbone; pressing fingertips, along both sides of the spine from the neck to the backbone and then stroking upward from the hip to the neck; stroking the shoulder muscles(trapezius); inching up the back, using fingertips placed on sides of spine, starting from the hipbone to the neck and then reversing the direction downward using fingertips in a raking fashion; massaging the lower back from the backbone across the waistline using the heel of the palm to make large circles; long gliding strokes from the hip up and over the shoulder (Nair ,. 2020 ; El-Hosary et al,. 2019).

Back massage will be done in four sessions each session takes 10 minutes and will be performed every week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Self-affirmation versus back massage

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Self-affirmation is non-pharmacological intervention which represents structured sentences to convey to the subconscious mind to help in reprogramming negative thoughts into positive ones.

Massage is defined as systematic touch of soft tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as pain relief, increased comfort and patient's relaxation

Interventions

Self-affirmation versus back massage

Self-affirmation is non-pharmacological intervention which represents structured sentences to convey to the subconscious mind to help in reprogramming negative thoughts into positive ones.

Massage is defined as systematic touch of soft tissues for therapeutic purposes, such as pain relief, increased comfort and patient's relaxation

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• • Pregnant women aged 20-35 years.

• Primigravida women.
• Read &write.
• During third trimester of pregnancy.
• Free from any medical, obstetric, gynecological and other psychological risk factors and /or conditions
• With normal course of pregnancy.
• Attend regular antenatal care visits.
• With intact back skin and free from burn, wound or any scar, injury, inflammation and allergy.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Alexandria University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Mahmoud Khedr

Lecturer

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Faculty of Nursing

Alexandria, , Egypt

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Egypt

Facility Contacts

Eman Taha, professor

Role: primary

eman.taha@alexu.edu.eg

01283440749

Other Identifiers

2252023

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id