Women's Positive Birth Perception Awareness and Birth Experience

January 25, 2025 updated by: Emine Aksut Akcay, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University

The Effect of Empathic Communication-Based Education on Women's Positive Birth Perception Awareness and Birth Experience

it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Since the existence of humanity, women have not been left alone during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period in all societies, but have been supported by their environment. In providing this support, midwives have important responsibilities as the primary responsible health professional . Quality midwifery care given at birth is very important for women to have a positive birth experience The biggest expectations of mothers from midwives in the birth and postpartum period are; it is approaching with empathetic communication such as smiling, therapeutic touch, listening, speaking in a language that the pregnant can understand, making oneself feel good, encouraging, informing, paying attention to privacy. Mothers whose expectations are met in labor; It can have positive obstetric outcomes such as shortening the delivery time, reduction in analgesia and medical intervention applications, positive birth experience, initiation of breastfeeding in the early period, mother-infant bonding and transition to the role of motherhood .

İt will contribute positively to the health indicators of the country and reduce the cost, a scale and guide have been prepared within the scope of this thesis, with the foresight that pregnant women and health workers need training materials, and training with interactive and mobile communication tools in this direction. has been planned.It is expected that the training to be given in line with the developed guideline, and the empathic communication-based training given in the third trimester of pregnancy will help to increase the awareness of women's positive perception of birth.

With this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

72

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, 46040
        • Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universty

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 40 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years and older pregnancy

    • Speaks and understands Turkish
    • Able to read and write,
    • Having a single fetus,
    • Not having a risky pregnancy,
    • 32-36. in gestational week,
    • Pregnant women who do not have any disability diagnosed for normal delivery

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Risky pregnant women
  • Pregnant women with communication difficulties
  • Pregnant women with mental deficiency

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Sequential Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: extrimental group
The experimental group will be given training on empathetic communication and the positive birth perception awareness scale will be applied to the experimental group.
Behavioral: empathic communication-based education
The study will consist of two stages. The first stage will be methodological in order to develop the Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale based on Empathic Communication, and the second stage will be a trial model with a pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effect of the training given to pregnant women based on empathic communication on positive birth perception awareness and birth experience.
No Intervention: control group
No intervention will be made in the control group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale
Time Frame: baseline
Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale (PDAFS): Focus group interviews will be held with 10-12 pregnant women for the scale to be developed. An item pool will be created from the themes and sub-areas obtained from the interviews. In addition, the factors affecting the awareness of positive birth perception of pregnant women were examined by examining the national and international literature, and a form will be prepared for the pilot study. The scale form, the literature study of the researchers and the findings of the focus group interviews will be re-evaluated and the pilot study form of the scale will be prepared. The pilot study form will be submitted to the expert opinion. The pilot form will be sent to 10-12 experts. By making arrangements in line with expert opinions, the question pool will be finalized before the application, and it will be transformed into a 5-point Likert scale model
baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Wijma Birth Experience/Expectation Scale A (WBBSS-A)
Time Frame: baseline
The scale consists of 33 items. The answers in the scale are in six-point Likert type numbered from 0 to 5. 0 is evaluated as "totally" and 5 as "not at all". The lowest score obtained from the scale is 0 and the highest score is 165. These; Those who have low level of fear of childbirth (WBLSS score ≤ 37), those who have moderate fear of childbirth (WBBSS-A score between 38-65).
baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sultan ALAN, Çukuroava Universty
  • Principal Investigator: Emine AKSÜT AKÇAY, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universty

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 15, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 19, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

December 19, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 29, 2022

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 10, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

January 11, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 25, 2025

Last Verified

January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • TRKMARAŞ46

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

I do not approve of sharing ipd

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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