NCT05214846

Nulliparous Women and Education and Counseling

The Effect of Education and Counseling on Reducing Anxiety and Depression in Nullipar Pregnancy Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ondokuz Mayıs University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study investigates the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression in nullipar women.

Detailed description

Pregnancy is a special process in a woman's life in which physiological, social and psychological changes occur. In this process, most women experience anxiety and depression, which are an important global health problem.The fear of uncertainty experienced by women who will become mothers for the first time may cause them to experience more anxiety/depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression of women. This randomized controlled study was conducted at state hospital in northern Turkey , Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2022 and March 2022. Volunteer women undergoing polyclinic have been included. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A data collection form including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age, educational status, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used for each patient. After obtaining written informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were applied, the nurse gave individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. Participants in the control group received standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the procedure) and no intervention (education and counseling) was performed.The IBM SPSS (Statistical package for the Social Sciences) 23.0 package program was used to evaluate the data obtained in the study.

Conditions

• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education and counseling	After obtaining informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were answered, individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. In addition, the education and counseling given to the participants by the researcher.The experimental group was given a telephone number where they could receive consultancy services for 12 hours a day. Pre-test was applied. One day later, the pregnant woman was called and encouraged to call for all her questions, and she was informed that she would be returned when she called.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-25
• Primary completion: 2022-01-01
• Completion: 2022-01-05
• First posted: 2022-01-31
• Last updated: 2022-02-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)