The Effect of Two Different Self-Assessment Methods for Fetal Movement Monitoring on Maternal Psychosocial Status
NCT Number: NCT06558162
Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Phases: NA
Conditions: Fetal Movement|Mental Health Issue
Interventions: BEHAVIORAL: Mindfetalness|BEHAVIORAL: Sadovsky
Sponsor: Kırklareli University
Sex: FEMALE
Age: CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Enrollment: 76
Study Design: Allocation: RANDOMIZED|Intervention Model: PARALLEL|Masking: DOUBLE (PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES_ASSESSOR)|Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Start Date: 2024-03-30
Completion Date: 2024-11
Locations: Neriman Güdücü, Kırklareli, Center, 39100, Turkey

Summary:
Antenatal care is essential for a successful delivery, a healthy baby and a happy mother. The main aim of antenatal care is to take appropriate interventions to assess, protect and improve maternal and fetal health during pregnancy. There are many methods to assess fetal health during pregnancy, such as ultrasonography (USG) and non stress test (NST). Along with these methods, maternal perception and counting of fetal movements is the only method that can be easily used by the mother without the need for clinicians or equipment. When a pregnant woman begins to feel fetal movements, it is one of the first signs of fetal life and is considered an indicator of fetal well-being. Decrease or absence of fetal movements has been stated to be an important parameter in the assessment of fetal health and may be associated with the risk of intrauterine fetal death. Therefore, feeling and counting of fetal movements is the basis for the assessment of fetal health.

Primary Outcome Measures: Attachment, Prenatal Maternal Attachment Scale: Each item of the scale, which has a total of 19 items, focuses on the feelings, attitudes and behaviors of the pregnant woman towards the fetus. The scale is Likert-type and each item is scored between 1-5. Before the total score is calculated, 11 items in the scale are scored in the reverse direction. The total score for the scale is obtained by adding the scores given to all items. A high score indicates a high degree of attachment., Pretest, Follow-up after two weeks, Follow-up after four weeks|Stress, Perceived Stress Scale-10: The ASÖ-10 is a two-factor, with each item being rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale with response options ranging from 0 (never) to 4 (very often). The responses are reversed and the scores of the four positive items are summed over the 10 items to obtain a total score. This score ranges from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating higher perceived stress., Pretest, Follow-up after two weeks, Follow-up after four weeks|Anxiety, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory: It consists of a total of forty items, including a State Anxiety Scale consisting of twenty items and a Trait Anxiety Scale consisting of twenty items. There are two types of expressions in the scales: direct and reversed. The total score obtained from each scale is between a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 80. A high score indicates a high level of anxiety, while a low score indicates a low level of anxiety., Pretest, Follow-up after two weeks, Follow-up after four weeks
Secondary Outcome Measures: Risk perception, Risk Perception in Pregnancy Scale: It consists of nine items and 2 factors. There is a 0-100 mm linear line immediately below each item on the scale, indicating "no risk" and "extremely high risk". The total score of the scale is found by adding the scores for each of the nine items and dividing the resulting score by 9. The scale has no cut-off point. As the score obtained from the scale increases, it is accepted that the perception of risk related to the pregnant woman and her baby increases., Pretest, Follow-up after two weeks, Follow-up after four weeks