The Effect of Emotional Resilience Training on Fear of Birth and Depression in Primiparous Pregnant Women

NCT ID: NCT06377891

Last Updated: 2024-04-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-04-16
• Study Completion Date: 2024-12-30

Brief Summary

Although birth has a great place in a woman's life, factors such as the woman's education level, personal experiences, social support status, whether the pregnancy is planned or not, the family's attitude towards pregnancy, and socioeconomic status increase the burden of pregnancy and can create a stressful situation for the woman. While the pain that may be experienced during birth, thoughts about the baby's health and postpartum baby care further increase this fear, primiparous women who will give birth for the first time experience many emotions that they cannot define and cannot predict the situations they will encounter during birth. The most important situation that will cause pain during birth is fear. So much so that fear of birth may cause women to avoid pregnancy and increase optional abortions.In particular, fear of birth may increase cesarean delivery rates and also lead to negative maternal outcomes such as poor mental health after birth. Fear experienced during the antenatal period can lead to difficult births, mother-baby attachment problems, and depression. While fear of birth causes depression and anxiety disorders in the postpartum period, it is stated that depression experienced during pregnancy may increase the fear of birth, or fear of birth may be a hidden symptom of depression. It is noted that emotional regulation skills and resilience in pregnant women can be effective strategies in minimizing and managing fear, anxiety, stress, and anxiety. Emotional resilience is defined as the style of coping with stress, the ability to repair oneself, the ability to recover from adverse events quickly, and the state of adapting to a new environment. In particular, individuals with high emotional resilience can protect their physical and mental health and increase their life satisfaction by reducing the negative consequences they experience. With the emotional resilience training given during pregnancy, pregnant women's stress, fear, and anxiety will be reduced, and they will be able to cope better with the difficulties they experience. This research will be conducted to examine the effect of emotional resilience training given to primiparous pregnant women on fear of childbirth and depression.

Conditions

Fear of Childbirth; Depression

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Emotional Resilience Group

Providing emotional resilience training to the experimental group.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional Resilience training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Primiparous pregnant women in the experimental group will be given emotional resilience training in the last trimester.

Control group

There will be no intervention in the control group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Emotional Resilience training

Primiparous pregnant women in the experimental group will be given emotional resilience training in the last trimester.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being over 18 years of age,
• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• 32-34. Being at the gestational age,
• Knowing Turkish,
• Being at least a primary school graduate,
• Having a single and healthy fetus,
• Having a WBDRS-A score of 38 and above,
• Being at least a primary school graduate.
• Depression score above 12/13,

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women with any risky pregnancy history (Preeclampsia, placenta previa, gestational diabetes mellitus, oligohydramnios and polyhydroamnios, etc.),
• Those who do not attend at least one of the sessions of the training program,
• Chronic and/or psychiatric health Pregnant women with problems (based on self-report and clinical diagnosis status) will be excluded from the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ataturk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Elif Odabası Aktas

Research Assistant

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Bayburt State Hospital

Bayburt, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

TDK-2024-13563

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id