Health Promotion Model, Fertility Awareness, Preconception Knowledge and Attitude

NCT ID: NCT06690554

Last Updated: 2025-03-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 128 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-11-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-01

Brief Summary

The effect of education given to preconceptional women in line with the health promotion model on fertility awareness, preconceptional knowledge and attitude levels

Detailed Description

The research is a randomized controlled trial. The research will conducted with 128 women (intervention group n=64, control group n=64). It will consist of women between the ages of 18-35 who applied to the community health unit of Güneysınır District Health Directorate between December 2024-May 2025.

Women who accept the research and are assigned to the intervention group will be given a five-day training to increase fertility awareness and preconceptional knowledge levels in line with the health promotion model. At the end of the fifth day, the Fertility Awareness Scale, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude Scale, and the Clinical Evaluation Form of the Health Promotion Plan for the Health Promotion Model will be applied to women who complete the training with a face-to-face interview technique. The women in the intervention group will be reached by phone at the end of the first and second months to remind them of their health promotion behaviors and to answer their questions and carry out follow-ups. At the end of the third month, women who have completed the training will be invited to the institution and the forms will be filled out again.

Conditions

Fertility Issues; Preconception Injuries; Health Behavior

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Placebo group

• Information about the research will be provided.
• Written consent will be obtained.
• Personal Information Form, Fertility Awareness, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude will be applied to women who accept to participate in the research.
• Five days after the first interview, women will be reached and the scales will be applied.
• Three months after the first interview, women will be reached, invited to the institution and the scales will be applied again.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Education Group

Women will be given a five-day training in line with the health promotion model.

• Information will be provided to women who apply to the hospital.
• Written consent documents will be obtained from women who agree to participate in the study.
• Women assigned to the intervention group will attend classes in groups of 8-10.
• Women will be given a 60-minute training once a day for five days.
• The total training duration is five hours.
• Scales will be applied to women who complete the training at the end of the fifth day.
• Women who have completed the training will be contacted by phone at the end of the first and second months, reminded of health promotion behaviors and their questions will be answered and follow-ups will be carried out.
• At the end of the third month, women who have received training will be invited to the institution and the Fertility Awareness, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude will be filled out face-to-face for the final test.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Education Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Women will be given a five-day training in line with the health promotion model.

Information will be provided to women who apply to the hospital. Written consent documents will be obtained from women who agree to participate in the study.

Women assigned to the intervention group will attend classes in groups of 8-10. Women will be given a 60-minute training once a day for five days. The total training duration is five hours. Scales will be applied to women who complete the training at the end of the fifth day.

Women who have completed the training will be contacted by phone at the end of the first and second months, reminded of health promotion behaviors and their questions will be answered and follow-ups will be carried out.

At the end of the third month, women who have received training will be invited to the institution and the Fertility Awareness, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude will be filled out face-to-face for the final test.

Interventions

Education Group

Women will be given a five-day training in line with the health promotion model.

Information will be provided to women who apply to the hospital. Written consent documents will be obtained from women who agree to participate in the study.

Women assigned to the intervention group will attend classes in groups of 8-10. Women will be given a 60-minute training once a day for five days. The total training duration is five hours. Scales will be applied to women who complete the training at the end of the fifth day.

Women who have completed the training will be contacted by phone at the end of the first and second months, reminded of health promotion behaviors and their questions will be answered and follow-ups will be carried out.

At the end of the third month, women who have received training will be invited to the institution and the Fertility Awareness, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude will be filled out face-to-face for the final test.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women between the ages of 18-35,
• Planning to get pregnant within a year,
• Literate,
• Can understand and speak Turkish,
• Agree to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria

• Women who are pregnant,
• Women who are breastfeeding,
• Women who have been diagnosed with infertility,
• Women who have a history of chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, etc.),
• Women who have a sexually transmitted disease (HIV, HPV, etc.),
• Women who have a physical disability,
• Women who have a psychiatric disease,
• Women who have a history of gynecological disease.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Selcuk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Seyhan Çankaya

Assoc. Prof. Seyhan Çankaya

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Seyhan Çankaya

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Selcuk University

Locations

Seyhan Çankaya

Konya, Konya, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2023/1011

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id