Effect of Normal Birth Simulation and Podcast Training Given to Pregnant Women on Birth Fear, Belief and Self-Efficacy

NCT ID: NCT06941493

Last Updated: 2025-05-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 114 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-05-16
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health education is "educational practices carried out in order to provide individuals, families and society with a healthy lifestyle, to adopt and implement the measures to be taken to improve their health, to get them used to using the health services offered, to persuade them to improve their health and their environment, to make them reach a common decision and to direct them to action" . As in all stages of life, it is known that the trainings given during pregnancy contribute to the protection of maternal and infant health. The aim of childbirth preparation trainings given for a healthy pregnancy and birth process is to develop positive health behaviors in line with the needs of the person, to increase confidence in oneself and one's body, to reduce the stress caused by the fear and uncertainty associated with childbirth encoded since the past, to ensure the desire to give birth normally and to ensure secure mother-baby bonding. Although prenatal education has positive contributions to the pregnancy and birth process, it has been determined that the verbal expression of the teaching style of routine prenatal education leads to a passive acceptance without establishing a cause and effect relationship by weakening the learning effect and moving away from mutual interaction. In the study conducted by Downe et al. (2019), it was determined that routine prenatal education was insufficient to meet the information needs of women. It is thought that prenatal education prepared through simulation and podcast by utilizing the advantages of digital technology on health education can be useful in increasing women's beliefs and self- efficacy towards normal delivery, reducing their fear of childbirth, increasing their knowledge levels and eliminating misinformation. From this point of view, our study is aimed to bring innovation to the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of simulation and podcast education used in prenatal education on pregnant women's fear of childbirth, birth beliefs and birth self-efficacy.

he main questions it aims to answer are

Research question 1: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect fear of childbirth? Research question 2: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect birth self-efficacy? Research question 3: Does education for pregnant women affect birth beliefs? To see if the drug ABC treats severe asthma, the researchers will compare it to a placebo (a substance that looks like a drug, but does not contain one).

To assess the effectiveness of prenatal education, the researchers will Group 1 will be trained with simulated labor for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 2 will be shown podcast videos simulating childbirth for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 3 will be provided with routine prenatal education

Conditions

Fear of Childbirth; Childbirth Education

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: OTHER

Study Groups

simulation training group

Normal birth simulation training will be given to this group for an average of 1 hour for 4 weeks in the simulation laboratory of Bucak School of Health.

No interventions assigned to this group

podcast eğitim grubu

The podcast group will be sent a 20-minute podcast video in parallel with the simulation group for 4 weeks In the first session, the podcast file prepared by the researcher will be uploaded to the smartphones of the pregnant women and it will be checked that the file works smoothly. Pregnant women will be called in the relevant weeks to confirm whether they are watching the podcast and whether there are any problems.

No interventions assigned to this group

control group

No intervention will be made to the control group by the research team, this group will only complete the standard prenatal education process in the pregnant class.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Those between the ages of 18-35
• Spontaneous pregnancy,
• Primiparous pregnant women
• 30-34. week of pregnancy
• Any health problems (hypertension, heart, diabetes, tuberculosis, HIV, cancer, etc.) non-
• Singleton pregnancy
• Participating in routine pregnancy education class

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women diagnosed with medium and high risk pregnancy (such as oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, heart disease, diabetes, placenta previa)
• Presence of any diagnosed psychiatric disease (such as anxiety, depression)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sema Göçmez

Lecturer

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Sema Göçmez

Role: CONTACT

semagocmez@icloud.com

+ 0 248 213 82 50

Other Identifiers

GO 2025/1004

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id