NCT01936610

the Effect of Instructional Method on Decision Making

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 67 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 28 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In these single- blind clinical trial 67 primigravida females, gestational aged 34-36 week were selected using multi-stage sampling and assigned into two groups randomly. Decision-making (before, two weeks after and at admission in maternity department) was tested by a researcher -made questionnaire. In experiment group, advantages and disadvantages of normal delivery and cesarean-section delivery were presented by role-playing in three 90-min scenarios. It was also presented in a 90-min lecture. Data were analyzed using SPSS by mean difference test, exact fisher test, independent t-test and paired t-test.

Conditions

• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	role play	In this method, researcher with two other co-researchers played 3 scenarios in 7 steps (for each scenario)including warm up, selecting participant, preparing the scene, preparing observers, play ,discussion and evaluation and generalization to education about advantages and disadvantages of normal delivery and cesarean section.
OTHER	lecture	Describe advantages and disadvantages in one 90-min session

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2013-09-06
• Last updated: 2013-09-06