The Effect of Social Media-Based Education on the Knowledge and Attitudes of Women of Childbearing Age in the Preconception Period and on Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

NCT ID: NCT07082140

Last Updated: 2025-07-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-10-05
• Study Completion Date: 2026-02-05

Brief Summary

In order to determine the effect of education provided through social media on the knowledge and attitudes of women of childbearing age during the preconceptional period and its relationship with healthy lifestyle behaviors, a randomized controlled pre-test and post-test design and control group was planned. The research universe will consist of women of childbearing age who applied to Ümraniye Education and Research Hospital, agreed to participate in the study and met the inclusion criteria (N: 80). In this randomized controlled pre-test and post-test design and control group study, in order to determine the sample size; the data were normally distributed, the standard deviation of the main mass was estimated as 1 and the effect size (difference) was estimated as 0.8. For the analysis to be conducted, it was calculated that the highest power value of the study would be 0.942182 if two independent n₁=40, n₂=40 samples were taken at a significance level of 5%. The G-power analysis result is given below. In addition, after the data collection, the adequacy of the sample size in the study will be evaluated with a post hoc power analysis. Women who volunteer to participate in the study will be assigned to the intervention and control groups using a computer-aided simple random sampling method. Computer-aided randomization will be used in the study, and the number of cases will be entered through the program with the URL address https://www.randomizer.org and random assignment will be made to the intervention and control groups. Preconceptional period education will be provided to the women in the intervention group via social media. No application will be made to the control group.

Conditions

Social Media Based Education

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Intervention group (n:40)

Participants in the intervention group will be required to follow the Instagram account created specifically for the training. The Instagram account will be made private to prevent women in the control group from accessing Instagram posts. The training provided via Instagram will last 2 weeks, including the process of sharing all posts and videos. After the completion of the training, the "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale" and the "Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude Scale" will be applied as a post-test.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Social media based education

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants in the intervention group will be required to follow the Instagram account created specifically for the training. The Instagram account will be made private to prevent women in the control group from accessing Instagram posts. The training provided via Instagram will last 2 weeks, including the process of sharing all posts and videos. After the completion of the training, the "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale" and the "Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude Scale" will be applied as a post-test.

Control group (n:40

No application will be made. After all stages of the research are completed, training will be applied to the control group participants. After the research is completed, all participants will be given a brochure containing the information in the training content.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Social media based education

Participants in the intervention group will be required to follow the Instagram account created specifically for the training. The Instagram account will be made private to prevent women in the control group from accessing Instagram posts. The training provided via Instagram will last 2 weeks, including the process of sharing all posts and videos. After the completion of the training, the "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale" and the "Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude Scale" will be applied as a post-test.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being willing to participate in the study.
• Being a woman of childbearing age
• Planning to get pregnant within 1 year
• Using Instagram and WhatsApp

Exclusion Criteria

• Being pregnant

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

Sponsors

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

YASEMİN AYDIN KARTAL

Assoc. Prof.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Health Sciences

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Yasemin AYDIN KARTAL, PhD

Role: CONTACT

yasemin.aydin@sbu.edu.tr

+90 543 287 00 29

Aleyna Bulut, Msc

Role: CONTACT

aleyna.bulut@sbu.edu.tr

05365626184

Other Identifiers

SBU-AYDINKARTAL-012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id