Nulliparous Women and Education and Counseling
Condition: Pregnancy
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This study investigates the effect of education and counseling on anxiety and depression in
      nullipar women.
    

Detailed description: 
      Pregnancy is a special process in a woman's life in which physiological, social and
      psychological changes occur. In this process, most women experience anxiety and depression,
      which are an important global health problem.The fear of uncertainty experienced by women who
      will become mothers for the first time may cause them to experience more anxiety/depression.
      The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of education and counseling on anxiety
      and depression of women.

      This randomized controlled study was conducted at state hospital in northern Turkey ,
      Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2022 and March 2022. Volunteer women
      undergoing polyclinic have been included. Participants were randomly assigned to the
      intervention or the control group using a computer-generated list. A data collection form
      including socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics such as age, educational status,
      Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used for each patient. After obtaining written
      informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were
      applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were
      applied, the nurse gave individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse
      researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. Participants in the control group received
      standard care (verbal information about procedure and a short written information about the
      procedure) and no intervention (education and counseling) was performed.The IBM SPSS
      (Statistical package for the Social Sciences) 23.0 package program was used to evaluate the
      data obtained in the study.
    

Intervention name(s): Education and counseling
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): After obtaining informed consent, the data collection form, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was applied to both groups by face to face interview. Immediately after the questionnaires were answered, individual education and counseling were giving by the nurse researcher to intervention group for 30 minutes. In addition, the education and counseling given to the participants by the researcher.The experimental group was given a telephone number where they could receive consultancy services for 12 hours a day. Pre-test was applied. One day later, the pregnant woman was called and encouraged to call for all her questions, and she was informed that she would be returned when she called.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: This randomized controlled study was conducted at state hospital of nothern Turkey Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic between January 2021 and January 2022. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) guidelines for reporting randomised controlled trials (RCTs) has been used to describe the methods.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Prevention
Keywords: nulliparous momen