NCT06136338

A Pilot Study of Mindfulness Intervention to the Timing of Labor Admission, Uncertainty and Anxiety

Effectiveness of Mindfulness Intervention to Determine the Timing of Labor Admission, Uncertainty and Anxiety Among Pregnant Women: A Pilot Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this quasi-experienmental study is to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention in the level of uncertainty and anxiety, and determintation towards hospital admission among pregnant women. The main questions : • Do pregnant women in intervention group reduce anxiety and uncertainty? • Do pregnant women in intervention group increase self-determintation ability towards hospital admission? Women in the intervention group participated 4 weeks mindfulness-based intervention online courses, Researchers have seen effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention in the level of uncertainty, anxiety, and determintation towards hospital admission among pregnant women.

Detailed description

The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiness of mindfulness-based intervention in the level of uncertainty and anxiety, and determination towards hospital admission among pregnant women. This study is a quasi-experimental design and convenient sampling to recruit primipara women in the distrct hospital. A total of 31 participants were enrolled, eleven participatns were assigned to the experimental group, and twenty participants were in the control group. The measurements were demographic characteristics andobstetric data, FFMQ,VAS of uncertainty and anxiety, and ACS.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Uncertain Viability of Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness training	Women in the experimental group underwent four sessions of mindfulness training. The mindfulness training started at the 28th week of pregnancy for the women, the second training was at the 30th week of pregnancy, the third was at the 32nd week of pregnancy, and the last was at the 34th week of pregnancy, with each session lasting 45 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-23
• Primary completion: 2023-03-03
• Completion: 2023-04-09
• First posted: 2023-11-18
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan