NCT05680272

Women's Positive Birth Perception Awareness and Birth Experience

The Effect of Empathic Communication-Based Education on Women's Positive Birth Perception Awareness and Birth Experience

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Detailed description

Since the existence of humanity, women have not been left alone during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period in all societies, but have been supported by their environment. In providing this support, midwives have important responsibilities as the primary responsible health professional . Quality midwifery care given at birth is very important for women to have a positive birth experience The biggest expectations of mothers from midwives in the birth and postpartum period are; it is approaching with empathetic communication such as smiling, therapeutic touch, listening, speaking in a language that the pregnant can understand, making oneself feel good, encouraging, informing, paying attention to privacy. Mothers whose expectations are met in labor; It can have positive obstetric outcomes such as shortening the delivery time, reduction in analgesia and medical intervention applications, positive birth experience, initiation of breastfeeding in the early period, mother-infant bonding and transition to the role of motherhood . İt will contribute positively to the health indicators of the country and reduce the cost, a scale and guide have been prepared within the scope of this thesis, with the foresight that pregnant women and health workers need training materials, and training with interactive and mobile communication tools in this direction. has been planned.It is expected that the training to be given in line with the developed guideline, and the empathic communication-based training given in the third trimester of pregnancy will help to increase the awareness of women's positive perception of birth. With this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of empathic communication-based education on positive birth perception awareness.

Conditions

• Pregnancy Related

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	empathic communication-based education	The study will consist of two stages. The first stage will be methodological in order to develop the Positive Birth Perception Awareness Scale based on Empathic Communication, and the second stage will be a trial model with a pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effect of the training given to pregnant women based on empathic communication on positive birth perception awareness and birth experience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-15
• Primary completion: 2024-12-19
• Completion: 2024-12-19
• First posted: 2023-01-11
• Last updated: 2025-01-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)