Women's Perception of Respectful Maternity Care, Birth Experiences and Perception of Traumatic Birth

NCT ID: NCT06691854

Last Updated: 2025-09-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 124 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-07-01

Brief Summary

The effect of the ıntrapartum care model given in line with the world health organization (WHO) recommendations on women's perception of respectful maternity care, birth experiences and perception of traumatic birth

Detailed Description

The research is a randomized controlled trial. The research will conducted with 124 primiparous pregnant women (intervention group n=62, control group n=62) who were hospitalized in the delivery unit of Aksaray Training and Research Hospital between September 2023 and January 2024. The pregnant women in the intervention group will given the intrapartum care model in line with WHO recommendations after cervical dilation reached 5 cm. The control group will received only the standard intrapartum care in the hospital. Data will be collected using the personal information form, birth follow-up form, respectful maternal care scale, birth experience scale, and traumatic birth perception scale.

Conditions

Maternity; Birth, First; Traumatic Birth; Intrapartum Fetal Distress

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Placebo group

Pregnant women who apply to the hospital for delivery, have a cervical dilatation of 5 cm or more, agree to participate in the study and are assigned to the control group;

• A personal information form will be applied at the first clinic admission.
• Pregnant women assigned to the control group will receive routine intrapartum care provided at the hospital.
• The labor process of the pregnant woman will be recorded on the birth experience monitoring form.
• The mother and baby will receive routine postpartum care provided at the hospital.
• After delivery, the Respectful maternity care scale, Birth experience scale, Traumatic birth perception scale will be applied.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

The group that applied the Intrapartum Care Model

Pregnant women who apply to the hospital for delivery, have cervical dilatation of 5 cm and above, agree to participate in the study and are assigned to the intervention group;

• A Personal Information form will be applied at the first clinic admission.
• All primiparous pregnant women assigned to the intervention group will be applied the intrapartum care model by the research midwife during the labor process and after birth in line with the WHO positive birth recommendations (Table 1).
• The labor process of the pregnant woman will be recorded on the birth experience follow-up form.
• After birth, the Respectful maternity care scale, Birth experience scale, Traumatic birth perception scale will be applied.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

The group that applied the Intrapartum Care Model

Intervention Type: OTHER

Pregnant women who apply to the hospital for delivery, have cervical dilatation of 5 cm and above, agree to participate in the study and are assigned to the intervention group;

A Personal Information form will be applied at the first clinic admission. All primiparous pregnant women assigned to the intervention group will be applied the intrapartum care model by the research midwife during the labor process and after birth in line with the WHO positive birth recommendations.

The labor process of the pregnant woman will be recorded on the birth experience follow-up form.

After birth, the Respectful maternity care scale, Birth experience scale, Traumatic birth perception scale will be applied.

Interventions

The group that applied the Intrapartum Care Model

Pregnant women who apply to the hospital for delivery, have cervical dilatation of 5 cm and above, agree to participate in the study and are assigned to the intervention group;

A Personal Information form will be applied at the first clinic admission. All primiparous pregnant women assigned to the intervention group will be applied the intrapartum care model by the research midwife during the labor process and after birth in line with the WHO positive birth recommendations.

The labor process of the pregnant woman will be recorded on the birth experience follow-up form.

After birth, the Respectful maternity care scale, Birth experience scale, Traumatic birth perception scale will be applied.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Those who are 18 years of age or older,
• Those who are in term pregnancy (38-41 weeks),
• Those who are primiparous,
• Those who have a single, healthy, vertex positioned fetus,
• Those who have cervical dilatation of 5 cm or more,
• Those who can speak and understand Turkish,
• Those who voluntarily agree to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria

• Those with chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, etc.),
• Those with a diagnosed mental illness (depression, anxiety or other psychotic disorder, etc.),
• Those with maternal and fetal complications (oligohydramnios and polyhydramnios, placenta previa, preeclampsia, premature membrane rupture, presentation anomalies, intrauterine growth retardation, fetal anomalies, intrauterine death, macrosomic baby, cord prolapse, etc.),
• Those with any complications that prevent vaginal birth (cephalopelvic disproportion, etc.),
• Elective cesarean section,
• Those who became pregnant with assisted reproductive techniques,
• Those who received childbirth preparation training.

• 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, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Selcuk University

Locations

Seyhan Çankaya

Konya, Konya, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2024/982

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id