Nulliparous Women and Education and Counseling

Ondokuz Mayıs University100 enrolled

Overview

This study investigates the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression in nullipar women.

Pregnancy is a special process in a woman's life in which physiological, social and psychological changes occur. In this process, most women experience anxiety and depression, which are an important global health problem.The fear of uncertainty experienced by women who will become mothers for the first time may cause them to experience more anxiety/depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression of women. This randomized controlled study was conducted at state hospital in northern Turkey , Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2022 and March 2022. Volunteer women undergoing polyclinic have been included. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A data collection form including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age, educational status, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used for each patient. After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were applied, the nurse gave individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. Participants in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (education and counseling) was performed.The IBM SPSS (Statistical package for the Social Sciences) 23.0 package program was used to evaluate the data obtained in the study.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Pregnancy

Interventions

Education and counselingBEHAVIORAL

After obtaining informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were answered, individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. In addition, the education and counseling given to the participants by the researcher.The experimental group was given a telephone number where they could receive consultancy services for 12 hours a day. Pre-test was applied. One day later, the pregnant woman was called and encouraged to call for all her questions, and she was informed that she would be returned when she called.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 50 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * A healthy pregnant woman over 18 years of age, * without a diagnosed psychiatric disease, * without mental disability and communication problems, * at 28 weeks of gestation, * nulliparous, * without fetal anomaly, * without risky pregnancy Exclusion Criteria: * A healthy pregnant woman under 18 years of age, * with a diagnosed psychiatric disease, * with mental disability and communication problems, * under 28 weeks of gestation, * multiparous, * with fetal anomaly, * with risky pregnancy

Locations (1)

Ondokuz Mayis University

Samsun, Atakum, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)

The HADS contains 14 items and consists of two subscales: anxiety and depression. Each item is rated on a four-point scale, giving maximum scores of 21 for anxiety and depression. Scores of 11 or more on either subscale are considered to be a significant 'case' of psychological morbidity, while scores of 8-10 represents 'borderline' and 0-7 'normal' (Zigmont ve Snaith).

Time frame: 30 minutes

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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