Newborn Basic Care Training on Fathers' Self-Efficacy and Father-Baby Attachment

NCT ID: NCT06163066

Last Updated: 2025-08-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 73 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-02
• Study Completion Date: 2024-09-30

Brief Summary

This study is planned to be carried out in a pre-test-post-test (first and fourth months) randomized controlled experimental design with the aim of determining the "Effect of Newborn Basic Care Training Given to Fathers with Different Methods on Fathers' Self-Efficacy and Father-Infant Attachment". In addition, the training provided aims to prevent malpractices in newborn care and to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality rates and gender-based inequalities.

Detailed Description

This study will be conducted in a prospective pre-test-post-test- (first and fourth months), three-arm (1:1:1), randomized controlled experimental design.The sample size of the study was calculated based on a 3-group study on father-infant attachment. Thus, it was planned to conduct research with 73 fathers in total (24 fathers in the web-based group, 24 in the face-to-face group, and 25 in the control group).

Conditions

Newborn Basic Care Training

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Web-based Group

The father's phone will be stolen and the father will record the researcher's phone number. After this stage, the researcher will apply a pre-test, make the father a member of the website and show the first video about basic newborn care to the father via his phone. The first access to the website will be made under the guidance of the researcher. For membership, individuals must have an internet connection and know how to use a phone. Even though the fathers made their first viewing before being discharged from the hospital, the web page will be open for 1 month and they will be able to watch the video they want whenever they want. Individuals who visit the page and agree to participate in the study will be given a posttest at the end of the 1st month and at the end of the 4th month.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Newborn Basic Care Training

Intervention Type: OTHER

These talented fathers will be given both face-to-face practical training and the industrial web-based training type of information technologies will be used. In this way, the positive developments provided by the two trainings will be abandoned and the understandability and usefulness of the training from the people's perspective will be increased. A website suitable for mobile phones will be designed by transferring digital materials. With this website, fathers will be able to access information about basic care via phone whenever and wherever they want. Thus, in a short time, without human resources and time, all the fathers in need throughout the country will reach the capacity to obtain appropriate information.

Face-to-face Group

The father's phone will be stolen and the father will record the researcher's phone number. Then, before his wife is discharged from the hospital, the father will be interviewed and an appointment will be made to meet at the clinic at a convenient time. During this appointment, the researcher will apply a pre-test and explain information about basic newborn care (hygiene, safety and nutrition) face-to-face and in practice. In addition, brochures about baby care will be provided to fathers that they can use at any time. After this process, the final test will be applied at the end of the 1st month and at the end of the 4th month.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Newborn Basic Care Training

Intervention Type: OTHER

These talented fathers will be given both face-to-face practical training and the industrial web-based training type of information technologies will be used. In this way, the positive developments provided by the two trainings will be abandoned and the understandability and usefulness of the training from the people's perspective will be increased. A website suitable for mobile phones will be designed by transferring digital materials. With this website, fathers will be able to access information about basic care via phone whenever and wherever they want. Thus, in a short time, without human resources and time, all the fathers in need throughout the country will reach the capacity to obtain appropriate information.

Control Group

The father's phone will be stolen and the father will record the researcher's phone number. After this stage, the researcher will perform a pre-test before the mother is discharged and will not have her perform any newborn care procedures. Fathers in the control group will continue to receive routine care. In Turkey, information about the basic care of the newborn is given only verbally by neonatal midwives and nurses before discharge. After these procedures, a final test will be applied to this group at the end of the 1st month and at the end of the 4th month.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Newborn Basic Care Training

These talented fathers will be given both face-to-face practical training and the industrial web-based training type of information technologies will be used. In this way, the positive developments provided by the two trainings will be abandoned and the understandability and usefulness of the training from the people's perspective will be increased. A website suitable for mobile phones will be designed by transferring digital materials. With this website, fathers will be able to access information about basic care via phone whenever and wherever they want. Thus, in a short time, without human resources and time, all the fathers in need throughout the country will reach the capacity to obtain appropriate information.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Fathers who participated in the study but withdrew at any point, whose child or spouse experienced health complications after childbirth, or who failed to access the website within one month or engage with the educational materials, were excluded from the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Çankırı Karatekin University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sevilay Ergun Arslanli

Lecturer (PhD)

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Sevilay ERGUN ARSLANLI, Phd Candidate

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Çankırı Karatekin University

Locations

Çankırı Karatekin University

Çankırı, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Sevilay ERGUN ARSLANLI

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id