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The Effect of Two Different Self-Assessment Methods for Fetal Movement Monitoring on Maternal Psychosocial Status

NCT06558162 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2024-08-20

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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.

Conditions

  • Fetal Movement
  • Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfetalness

They will be instructed to lie on their left side and focus on the fetal movements for 15 minutes every day while the foetus is awake. They will also be instructed to monitor the character, strength and frequency of fetal movements (not to count them) and to seek medical advice if they feel any change in this pattern. After two weeks, the pregnant women will be invited back to the organisation for a follow-up interview to check whether they have performed the practice and recorded correctly. An interview will be conducted again after four weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Sadovsky

They will be asked to continue this procedure every morning, noon or evening for one month (depending on the movements of the pregnant woman and her baby, the time will be left to the pregnant woman, but it should be at the same time every day). Since the aim of the study is to increase maternal awareness rather than to determine fetal well-being, mothers will be asked to count at least 10 movements based on the "count to ten" and "Sadovsky" method, and will be asked to record the start and completion time of the movements each time. A follow-up will be made after two weeks and a final follow-up will be made after one month

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kırklareli University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neriman Güdücü, Dr. · Kırklareli University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-03-30
Primary Completion
2024-11-30
Completion
2024-11-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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