The purpose of this study is to explore the differences between stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infants bonding, salivary amylase activity, and postnatal maternal outcomes for prenatal mental disorders in women with mindfulness prenatal education program
The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of a Mindfulness prenatal education program in reducing pregnant women's perceived stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infant bonding, and salivary alpha-amylase compared to a control group. The investigators hypothesize that using the mindfulness prenatal education program by the study group will lead to improved related mood symptoms compared with the control group. Randomized Controlled Trial comparing two education programs with health and singleton pregnant women is run by the Random Allocation Software (Saghaei, 2004). Use the G-Power 3.1.9 windows: repeated measures and between factors among two groups to calculate the number of samples, and setting the power = .8, α = .05, effect size = .25. The estimated number of samples may be lost 30%, total 102 samples.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
102
Mindfulness-based prenatal education involves mindfulness breathing and other skills with mindfulness meditations.
Hospital-based antenatal care involves all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
Wan-Lin Pan
Taipei, Taiwan
stress
Perceived stress scale, that was 10 items to determine the self-perceived levels of unpredictability, lack of control, and burden during the last month of pregnancy. Responses are rated from 0 (never) to 4 (very often), with higher scores corresponding to higher perceived stress
Time frame: baseline , and at eight weeks (after the intervention), 36 weeks of gestation, and the follow-up at 2 , 4 months postpartum
depression
Edinburgh Perinatal Depression Scale, that was 10-question questionnaire provides a valuable and efficient way to identify patients at risk of perinatal depression. Each item is scored from 0 to 3, with item scores summed to produce a total score
Time frame: baseline , and at eight weeks (after the intervention), 36 weeks of gestation, and the follow-up at 2 , 4 months postpartum
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