The research was carried out to determine the effects of tactile stimulation, music listening and virtual reality video watched during the non-stress test on maternal anxiety level and fetal parameters.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
120
The tactile stimulation group will be asked to touch their own abdomen during the NST procedure.
Pregnant women in the music group will listen to a song they want with headphones during the NST procedure.
Pregnant women in the virtual reality group will be shown a nature walk video with nature sounds (stream, bird, etc.) during the NST procedure.
Lokman hekim University
Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)
Fetal heart rate, fetal movement
number
Time frame: 20 minutes
Maternal anxiety
STAI State Anxiety Inventory The emotions and behaviors expressed in the State Anxiety Inventory (STAI TX-I) items are answered by marking one of the options such as (1) never, (2) a little, (3) a lot, (4) completely, according to the severity of such experiences. The options in the Anxiety Scale are "almost never"(1), "sometimes"(2), "often"(3), "almost always"(4). Scoring ranges from 1 to 4. In the scale, there are direct or straight and reversed statements. Direct statements indicate negative emotions, reversed statements indicate positive emotions.
Time frame: 20 minutes
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