Reducing Fear of Childbirth Among Pregnant Women

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Pregnant women often experience fear of childbirth or anxiety toward the labor pain or uncertainties associated with labor process. To develop and evaluate the efficacy of childbirth educational interventions on reduction of fear or anxiety is an important issue in maternal health care.

Clinical Trial Description

Fear of childbirth is a common clinical problem among perinatal women and link to adverse health effects on mother's and offspring's well-being. Recently, reducing the childbirth fear becomes a highly important maternity care issues as a result of the fact that the birth rate has been declining rapidly as well as Cesarean rate increased steadily. However, the studies on fear of childbirth among perinatal population in Taiwan were limited. In this proposal the investigators plan to conduct a randomized controlled study examining the effects of mindfulness-based childbirth education. In the randomized controlled study, women will be recruited and randomized into the experiment group (receiving mindfulness-based childbirth education and traditional childbirth education),or will be allocated in the control group receiving traditional childbirth education. Intention-to-treat analysis as well as mixed regression modeling will be used to estimate the effectiveness of the interventions. ;

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Fear of Childbirth

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04214431
Study type	Interventional
Source	Taipei Medical University
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	December 7, 2015
Completion date	December 20, 2019

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