Motivational Interview in Primiparous Pregnants With Low Belief in Normal Birth

This study aims to determine the effect of motivational interviews made with primiparous pregnant women with low belief in normal birth on medical and natural birth belief. This randomized controlled study was conducted in a randomized controlled manner with a total of 148 pregnant women who applied to the obstetrics outpatient clinic of a hospital in eastern Turkey (74 trials, 74 controls). In the study, a total of four sessions of motivational interviews were conducted with the primiparous pregnant women in the experimental group, one week apart. No intervention was applied to the women in the control group. Research data Personal Information Form, Belief Scale for Normal Delivery (BSND) and Birth Beliefs (Natural and medical birth belief) Scale (BBS) were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's chi-square test, and dependent and independent t-test were used to analyze the data.

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Key information

Conditions

Pregnancy Related

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences Sutcuimam University

Kahramanmaraş, Onikişubat, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Having a low level of belief and tendency towards normal birth according to the Normal Birth Belief Scale (between 24-56 points),
Primiparous pregnant,
According to the calculations made by USG of the pregnant women who do not know the last menstruation date or the last menstruation date, 24-36 days of pregnancy. in the week,
Pregnant women who volunteered were included in the sample of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Premature birth,
Having any risk diagnosed during pregnancy (such as preeclampsia, diabetes, heart disease, placenta previa, oligohydramnios),
Contraindications for normal vaginal delivery
Developing cesarean indication,
Not completing MG sessions,
Pregnant women with deficiencies or errors in any of the forms in which the data were obtained were excluded from the sample.

Treatment and study plan

Motivational interview

Behavioral

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative speaking style to strengthen one's own motivation and commitment to change. Motivational interviewing is not a technique but a fundamental therapeutic style that does not try to make people change their behavior against their will. Proven to be effective in many areas of healthcare, motivational interviewing is widely used to help people resolve their indecision about change, explore their concerns, and set their own goals. The purpose of the motivational interviews conducted in the study is to increase the belief in normal and natural birth by enabling pregnant women to understand the factors that affect their low belief in normal birth, to take action for change and to believe in change, and to minimize the practices that cause medicalization of birth such as cesarean section by reducing medical birth beliefs.

Primary outcomes

Belief Scale for Normal Delivery (BSND)

Time frame: up to 4 weeks

It was developed to evaluate the beliefs and tendencies of pregnant women towards normal birth. The scale is a five-point Likert type and is scored as I completely agree (5), agree (4), undecided (3), disagree (2), strongly disagree (1). A minimum of 24 and a maximum of 120 points can be obtained from the scale. If the total score from the scale is between 24 and 56, low, between 57 and 88, moderate, and between 89 and 120, high-level beliefs and tendency towards normal birth are in question. As the average score obtained from the scale increases, the beliefs and tendencies of pregnant women about normal birth increase.
Birth Beliefs (Natural and medical birth belief) Scale (BBS)

Time frame: Baseline and 4 weeks

While one of the sub-dimensions of the scale used to evaluate the basic belief levels of women about childbirth evaluates birth as a natural process, the other sub-dimension considers birth as a medical/medical process. The scale consists of 11 items in total, including 5 items (items 3, 5, 7, 8, and 11) for the belief in the natural process of birth and 6 items (items 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 10) for the belief in the medical/medical process. consists of. The scale score is obtained by dividing the total score of the items belonging to each sub-dimension by the number of items belonging to that sub-dimension. The group with a high numerical value in the arithmetic mean result constitutes the birth belief of the woman. In this Likert-type scale, each item is scored between 1 and 5 scales. The option "strongly disagree" receives 1 point, while the option "strongly agree" receives 5 points.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Inonu University

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Registry information

Official study title

The Effect of Motivational Interviews of Primiparous Pregnants With Low Belief in Normal Birth on Medical and Natural Birth Beliefs

Important dates

Study start: 2021
Primary completion: 2021
Study completion: 2021
First posted: Aug 24, 2023
Registry last updated: Aug 24, 2023

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