NCT03334097

Educational Intervention in the Fear-Avoidance Delivery

Educational Intervention in the Fear-Avoidance Delivery: a Prospective Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Malaga · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this research is to study the responsiveness of the Spanish Version of Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire, Version A (WDEQ-A) in pregnant women after an educational intervention.

Detailed description

The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire is a self-report instrument designed to measure the fear of childbirth in terms of the woman's cognitive appraisal of childbirth, which is now the most commonly used measure of fear of childbirth. The version A, measures the fear before a delivery (WDEQ-A). It consists of 33 items on a 6-point Likert scale (0 = do not agree; 5 = totally agree). The total score ranges from 0 to 165; the higher the score, the greater the fear the pregnant women experience. A higher score (over 85) indicates a more intense fear of childbirth, and a score of over 100 is considered as a phobia; thus, the scale can measure individual degrees of fear among women before and after their deliveries In Spain, there is no specific instrument to test the effectiveness of different practices that are commonly used to reduce the fear of childbirth as the maternal education. Hence, after cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish of the questionnaire (WDEQ-A-Sp), the responsiveness after and educational intervention will be analysed. Descriptive analyses will be applied to calculate means and standard deviations of the demographic variables. Distribution and normality will be determined by the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests (significance \>0.05). Responsiveness will calculated following COSMIN requirements.

Conditions

• Pregnancy Related

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Prenatal education	Education intervention will consist of a total of six sessions one week apart, with two hours of duration each one. The sessions that are exclusively oriented towards preparation for childbirth are session 1 and session 2. The content of each session is: 1. St. Birth: Start of childbirth, Symptoms and Signs, Delivery schedules, Phases of childbirth, Normal childbirth, Other circumstances (Obstetrical pathology / previous pathology, Induction of labor, Instrumental birth, Caesarean section). 2. nd:methods for relieving birth pain: Alternative Methods of Pain Relief, Pharmacological analgesia, Regional analgesia. Local and regional anesthesia, General anesthesia, breathing training and accompaniment during childbirth- 3. rd: Puerperium. 4. rd :Breastfeeding 5. rd : Newborn care 6. rd :Positive parenting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2019-03-01
• First posted: 2017-11-07
• Last updated: 2019-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain