NCT06605274

Effectiveness Web-based Training on Perinatal Loss

Web-based Training Given to Women Who Have Experienced Perinatal Loss the Effect of Psychosocial Well-being

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abant Izzet Baysal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study was conducted in a randomized controlled parallel group experimental design to determine the effect of web-based supportive care provided to women who experienced perinatal loss on perinatal grief, depression, hopelessness and coping with stress.

Detailed description

Loss, which includes many complex emotions, is the loss of a person or object that is valuable to the individual after having it. Perinatal loss is the most painful situation that pregnancy can potentially result in. With perinatal loss, parents may show behavioral (shock, anger and loneliness) and physical (crying, loss of appetite or overeating, insomnia, irritability, inability to concentrate, forgetfulness, pain, etc.) reactions. However, emotional problems such as grief and depression after loss are more common than physical and behavioral problems. While the prevalence of major depression in society is 3-10%, this rate varies between 10-51% in those who experience perinatal loss. Loss can become a life crisis with biopsychosocial and spiritual dimensions for parents and especially for women.

Conditions

• Pregnancy Loss
• Psychological Distress
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Web-Based Education Program	Before being discharged from the clinic, the women who experienced perinatal loss filled out the Personal Information Form, Perinatal Grief Scale, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale, and Stress Coping Styles Scale individually. The women were informed about the use of the website. The discharged women were contacted by phone, given the passwords of the "birliktegücleniyoruz.com" website, and invited to use the website for the five-week education program. Each week, only one session determined for that week was uploaded to the site. Participants who wished to do so were able to watch the uploaded sessions more than once. Retrospective sessions also remained accessible on the site. Each session lasted an average of 20-30 minutes. Women who completed five sessions were contacted by phone in the sixth week. Women filled out the PGS, EPDS, BHS, and SCSS online a second time
OTHER	Control	Before being discharged from the perinatology clinic, the women filled out the Personal Information Form, PGS, EPDS, BHS, and SCSS individually. Six weeks after discharge, the participants filled out the same measurement tools online again. During this process, the hospital's routine monitoring continued for the control group. The website was opened to the use of participants who wanted to use the site after the completion of the final tests.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-01
• Primary completion: 2023-12-01
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2024-09-20
• Last updated: 2024-09-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)