Intervention for Fear of Childbirth in High-Risk Pregnant Women

Launched by KOCAELI UNIVERSITY · Nov 29, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

Aim: The aim of the study is to examine the effect of mandala activity applied to pregnant women hospitalized in the clinic due to high-risk pregnancies on pregnancy stress and fear of birth.

Hypothesis 1 H.0: There is no difference in pregnancy stress scores between high-risk pregnant women who participated in the mandala study applied in addition to medical treatment in the hospital and high-risk pregnant women who did not.

H.1: There is a difference in pregnancy stress scores between high-risk pregnant women who participated in the mandala study applied in addition to medical treatment...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Those who want to participate in the study voluntarily
• • Those who can speak and understand Turkish
• • Those who are over 18 years of age
• • Primiparous pregnant women
• • Pregnant women diagnosed with risky pregnancies (threatened preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, gestational hypertension, intrauterine growth retardation, placenta previa, hyperemesis gravidarum)
• • Pregnant women in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy (13-40 weeks)
• • Those who do not have hearing, comprehension and vision problems so that they can follow the group study will be included in the study.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Pregnant women who are absent from the mandala activity planned 3 times a week for 4 weeks for more than a week
• • Those who do less than 18 mandala activities during 4 weeks
• • Those who fill out the survey forms incompletely
• • Pregnant women who decide to give birth during the survey period will be excluded from the study.