The Effect of Emotional Resilience Training on Fear of Birth and Depression in Primiparous Pregnant Women

NCT06377891 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 1 other identifier: TDK-2024-13563
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 80
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Although birth has a great place in a woman's life, factors such as the woman's education level, personal experiences, social support status, whether the pregnancy is planned or not, the family's attitude towards pregnancy, and socioeconomic status increase the burden of pregnancy and can create a stressful situation for the woman. While the pain that may be experienced during birth, thoughts about the baby's health and postpartum baby care further increase this fear, primiparous women who will give birth for the first time experience many emotions that they cannot define and cannot predict the situations they will encounter during birth. The most important situation that will cause pain during birth is fear. So much so that fear of birth may cause women to avoid pregnancy and increase optional abortions.In particular, fear of birth may increase cesarean delivery rates and also lead to negative maternal outcomes such as poor mental health after birth. Fear experienced during the antenatal period can lead to difficult births, mother-baby attachment problems, and depression. While fear of birth causes depression and anxiety disorders in the postpartum period, it is stated that depression experienced during pregnancy may increase the fear of birth, or fear of birth may be a hidden symptom of depression. It is noted that emotional regulation skills and resilience in pregnant women can be effective strategies in minimizing and managing fear, anxiety, stress, and anxiety. Emotional resilience is defined as the style of coping with stress, the ability to repair oneself, the ability to recover from adverse events quickly, and the state of adapting to a new environment. In particular, individuals with high emotional resilience can protect their physical and mental health and increase their life satisfaction by reducing the negative consequences they experience. With the emotional resilience training given during pregnancy, pregnant women's stress, fear, and anxiety will be reduced, and they will be able to cope better with the difficulties they experience. This research will be conducted to examine the effect of emotional resilience training given to primiparous pregnant women on fear of childbirth and depression.

Conditions

Fear of Childbirth; Depression

Keywords

Resilience; Pregnant; Primiparous; Fear of Childbirth; Depression

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The effect of emotional resilience on fear of birth and depression in primiparous pregnant women.

  To make the effect of emotional resilience training given to primiparous pregnant women on fear of birth and depression during pregnancy and after birth visible with WIJMA-A and WIJMA-B fear of birth scale (Low (score ≤ 37), moderate (38-65), severe (66-84) and clinical fear of birth (≥ 85)) and Edinburgh depression scale (The cut-off point was calculated as 12/13, and women whose total scale score is more than the cut-off point are considered to be in the risk group)

  32-34 gestational weeks - 4 follow-ups until the 6th week postpartum

Study Arms (2)

Emotional Resilience Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Providing emotional resilience training to the experimental group.

Other: Emotional Resilience training

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

There will be no intervention in the control group.

Interventions

Emotional Resilience training OTHER

Primiparous pregnant women in the experimental group will be given emotional resilience training in the last trimester.

Emotional Resilience Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being over 18 years of age,
• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• Being at the gestational age,
• Knowing Turkish,
• Being at least a primary school graduate,
• Having a single and healthy fetus,
• Having a WBDRS-A score of 38 and above,
• Being at least a primary school graduate.
• Depression score above 12/13,

You may not qualify if:

• Pregnant women with any risky pregnancy history (Preeclampsia, placenta previa, gestational diabetes mellitus, oligohydramnios and polyhydroamnios, etc.),
• Those who do not attend at least one of the sessions of the training program,
• Chronic and/or psychiatric health Pregnant women with problems (based on self-report and clinical diagnosis status) will be excluded from the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ataturk University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Bayburt State Hospital

Bayburt, 69000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Research Assistant

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 15, 2024
• First Posted: April 22, 2024
• Study Start: April 16, 2024
• Primary Completion: October 30, 2024
• Study Completion: December 30, 2024
• Last Updated: April 22, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-04

Locations

TU (1)