Clinical trial NCT06690554: Health Promotion Model, Fertility Awareness, Preconception Knowledge and Attitude
Official title: The Effect of Education Given to Preconception Women in Line with the Health Promotion Model on Fertility Awareness, Preconception Knowledge and Attitude Levels
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Fertility Issues
Preconception Injuries
Health Behavior
Keywords: Fertility Awareness
Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude
Health Promotion Model
Lead sponsor: Selcuk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-11-15
Enrollment: 128
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The effect of education given to preconceptional women in line with the health promotion model on fertility awareness, preconceptional knowledge and attitude levels

Detailed description: The research is a randomized controlled trial. The research will conducted with 128 women (intervention group n=64, control group n=64). It will consist of women between the ages of 18-35 who applied to the community health unit of Güneysınır District Health Directorate between December 2024-May 2025.

Women who accept the research and are assigned to the intervention group will be given a five-day training to increase fertility awareness and preconceptional knowledge levels in line with the health promotion model. At the end of the fifth day, the Fertility Awareness Scale, Preconceptional Knowledge and Attitude Scale, and the Clinical Evaluation Form of the Health Promotion Plan for the Health Promotion Model will be applied to women who complete the training with a face-to-face interview technique. The women in the intervention group will be reached by phone at the end of the first and second months to remind them of their health promotion behaviors and to answer their questions and carry out follow-ups. At the end of the third month, women who have completed the training will be invited to the institution and the forms will be filled out again.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women between the ages of 18-35,
* Planning to get pregnant within a year,
* Literate,
* Can understand and speak Turkish,
* Agree to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Women who are pregnant,
* Women who are breastfeeding,
* Women who have been diagnosed with infertility,
* Women who have a history of chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, etc.),
* Women who have a sexually transmitted disease (HIV, HPV, etc.),
* Women who have a physical disability,
* Women who have a psychiatric disease,
* Women who have a history of gynecological disease.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Comparison of sociodemographic of women
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Comparison of obstetric features of women
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Comparison of women's fertility awareness scale average scores by groups
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Comparison of women's preconceptional knowledge and attitude scale average scores by groups
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Konya
country: Turkey
facility: Seyhan Çankaya
Study officials:
affiliation: Selcuk University
name: Seyhan Çankaya
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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