NCT03185910

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Education on Pregnant Women

The Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Education on Pregnant Women's Childbirth Self-efficacy, Psychological Health and Maternal Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences between stress, depression, childbirth self-efficacy, mindfulness and postnatal maternal outcomes in pregnant women with Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting education program.

Detailed description

Being a mother is a huge change for women, and she will undergo a high degree of change and a strong threat in this transformation process. The purpose of this study is to explore the efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting(MBCP) Education Program on prenatal stress, depression, mindfulness, childbirth self-efficacy, and postnatal maternal outcomes. 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 20%, total 104 samples ( 52 samples in each group). The protocol for the study used MBCP education, this program helps participants practice in the present moment, so that they may develop more confidence and well-being during pregnancy. The MBCP course is held for 3 hrs once a week for 8 weeks. They also had the home practice of 30 minutes a day with a DVD for the experimental group. The control group attending a hospital-based antenatal education program for 2 hrs once a month for 2 months from hospital staff nurses in all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. This study uses a standard verbal script to the eligible participants who were volunteers of pregnant women in the waiting room of metropolitan hospital in Taiwan.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological
• Pregnancy Related

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MBCP education	MBCP education involves mindfulness breathing and other skills with mindfulness meditations.
BEHAVIORAL	Hospital-based antenatal education	Hospital-based antenatal education involves all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-03
• Primary completion: 2017-12-02
• Completion: 2018-02-28
• First posted: 2017-06-14
• Last updated: 2017-06-14