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Guided Imagery and Positive Birth Experience Sharing on Fear of Childbirth and Self-Efficacy

NCT07015086 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 84

Last updated 2025-08-24

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Summary

Abstract This study will be conducted to determine the effect of sharing positive birth experiences and mental imagery on birth self-efficacy and fear of childbirth. The study is a single-center, parallel-group, stratified block (in terms of fear of childbirth level) randomized controlled experimental study. The study sample will consist of a total of 84 participants, with 42 in the intervention group and 42 in the control group. The study is planned to be conducted between July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. Inclusion criteria for the study are: WİJMA A scale score average below 85, age over 18, being primiparous, being in the 20th to 26th week of pregnancy, having no complications in the mother or fetus during pregnancy (gestational diabetes, hypertension, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, congenital anomalies, etc.), having no communication problems (mental, auditory, visual, language, etc.), and volunteering to participate in the study. The study data will be collected using a personal information form, the Wijma Childbirth Expectancy/Experience Scale Version A (W-DEQ A), and the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CBSEI-C32). Women will be invited to participate in online training sessions in groups of 3-10 people. Positive birth stories will be shared with the women, and visualization exercises will be demonstrated. Following the training sessions, the follow-up phase of the study will begin, and women will be provided with an audio recording of the visualization guidelines in MP3 format. Women will be asked to perform visualization exercises at least once or twice daily for a minimum of eight weeks. No intervention will be applied to the control group.

Conditions

  • Childbirth

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Guided Imagery and Positive Birth Experience Sharing

The positive experience will be shared by one of the researchers and the pregnant women's questions will be answered after the sharing. The mental imagery techniques prepared by Rossman (2015) to facilitate birth will be used for the mental imagery application. After the training, the mental imagery instructions will be given to the pregnant women as an audio recording in mp3 format. The pregnant women will be asked to do the mental imagery once or twice a day for at least 8 weeks. The mental imagery application takes approximately 20 minutes. The pregnant women will be reminded to do the application every day via the Whatsapp® application. The pregnant women will be asked to mark whether they do the application every day or not on the weekly follow-up chart.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gazi University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-08-25
Primary Completion
2026-05-25
Completion
2026-12-12

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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