Clinical trial NCT04690881: The Effect of Psychodrama for Treating Fear of Childbirth
Official title: Psychodrama as a New Intervention for Treating Fear of Childbirth: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Fear of Childbirth
Keywords: Fear of childbirth
Pychodrama
Psychoeducation
Childbirth-antenatal education
Lead sponsor: Marmara University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-12-31
Enrollment: 150
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study is a randomized controlled study. This research was carried out with the aim of determining the effect of psychodrama-based pregnancy education program on fear of childbirth (FOC). The population of the study consisted of 18-45 years old pregnant who with high fear of childbirth. The sample of the study was determined as 150 pregnant with confidence level of 95% and theoretical power of 95%. The pregnant women were divided into two groups of 75 pregnant. In addition to routine pregnancy training, a 90-minute psychodrama study was carried out to the experimental group. Data were collected using the information form, Wijma Delivery Expectancy/ Experience Questionnaire Version A (W-DEQ), Wijma Delivery Expectation / Experience Questionnaire Version B (W-DEQ), City Birth Trauma Scale and Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale. The data obtained were assesment using the SPSS (Version 21.0) package program on the computer.

Detailed description: The pregnant women were divided into two groups of 75 pregnant. In addition to the 6-week routine pregnancy training, a 90-minute psychodrama study was conducted to the experimental group. The experimental group was divided into 6 subgroups and trained (min = 9, max = 14). The control group was divided into 6 subgroups and trained (min = 11, max = 14). Prenatal psychodrama is held by psychodrama psychotherapists in individual and group therapy sessions. In these sessions the pregnant mother encounters herself, her baby, her partner, her mother, her fear of childbirth and the moment of birth; she may act as protagonist in some scenes and in this way she closes any unfinished business from the past and rehearses the future in a safe therapeutic environment.Data were collected using the information form, Wijma Delivery Expectancy/ Experience Questionnaire Version A (W-DEQ), Wijma Delivery Expectation / Experience Questionnaire Version B (W-DEQ), City Birth Trauma Scale and Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale. The data obtained were assesment using the SPSS (Version 21.0) package program on the computer.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* willing to participate in the study voluntarily,
* non-disabled (hearing, seeing, understanding),
* having 38 or more points from Wijma Birth Experience / Expectation Scale A,
* living with his wife,
* primipary,
* not diagnosed with risky pregnancy and
* women with suitable weeks of gestation (between 20-30 weeks) were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* those who were diagnosed with risky pregnancy during the training,
* did not attend the first week of the pregnancy training program,
* were absent for more than a week,
* had difficulty following group studies,
* completed the forms incompletely, and
* did not want to continue working / gave up from the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Fear of childbirth
timeFrame: 6 week
measure: Fear of Childbirth
timeFrame: Postpartum 7-14 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Postpartum posttraumatic stress
timeFrame: Postpartum 6. Months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Marmara University
Study officials:
affiliation: Marmara University
name: Fadime Bingöl
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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