NCT03594526

Efficacy of a Nursing Intervention in First-time Mothers

Efficacy of a Nursing Intervention in the Process of Becoming a Mother, in First-time Mothers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Rovira i Virgili · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 54 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Experimental study will determine the efficacy of nursing intervention named Maternal support to become first-time mothers based on the theory of Ramona Mercer. Sequential explanatory design will be used. It is a mixed design with approach quantitative and qualitative in order to obtain a better approach of the phenomen. The approach quantitative will be randomized controlled clinical trial. The qualitative analysis of the content will be done according to Bardin.

Detailed description

Taking into account the scientific literature related to studies in first-time mothers with healthy newborns, it can be concluded that the limited success of interventions that have been made suggests that the main areas of becoming a mother have not been addressed, either as part of the content or process of the interventions. This study will be conducted in 24 months. The sample size calculated will be 74 first-time mothers in total, which are allocated in two groups, intervention and control. Each group with 37 mothers.

Conditions

• Mothers
• First Birth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Maternal support to become mother	"AMACOM-PRI": Apoyo Materno para Convertirse en Madre - Primerizas. Maternal support to become first-time mothers is an intervention based on the mid-range nursing theory of Ramona Mercer, whose purpose is to empower first-time mothers in their new maternal role, favoring the mother-child bond, strengthening social support and maternal self-efficacy, consists of. 1. Four Home visits , in the first week; first month of baby life; at three months; and the fourth postpartum month. 2. Four Educational sessions and support sessions for maternal empowerment in each home visit. 3. Telephone follow-up: at 15 days; a month and a half; at two and a half months; and three and a half months postpartum.
BEHAVIORAL	Control Group: usual care	This intervention is usual care, which consists of: 1. care of the mother and her newborn during the puerperium 2. Teaching about breastfeeding.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-02
• Primary completion: 2019-09-20
• Completion: 2020-02-01
• First posted: 2018-07-20
• Last updated: 2020-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia