Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT06413875 |
| Other study ID # |
makale |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
April 1, 2023 |
| Est. completion date |
December 31, 2023 |
Study information
| Verified date |
May 2024 |
| Source |
Bartin University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Objective: To determine the effect of menopausal symptom-specific education given to
menopausal women via WhatsApp on their quality of life and genital self-image.
Methods: The population of the study, which has a classical experimental design with a
pretest-posttest control group, was comprised of women between the ages of 45-65 across
Turkey. According to the power analysis performed in the G*Power3.1 Program, the sample size
was calculated as 64 participants for each group, with an effect size (0.418), 95% power and
0.05 type 1 error, and was completed with 158 women. Data were collected with the
Introductory Information Form, the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Scale (MSQLS) and the
Female Genital Self-Image Scale (FGSIS). The research was conducted online via WhastApp in a
pretest-educational intervention-posttest design. The data were analyzed in the SPSS 26.0
package program.
Description:
Objective: To determine the effect of menopausal symptom-specific education given to
menopausal women via WhatsApp on their quality of life and genital self-image.
Methods: The population of the study, which has a classical experimental design with a
pretest-posttest control group, was comprised of women between the ages of 45-65 across
Turkey. According to the power analysis performed in the G*Power3.1 Program, the sample size
was calculated as 64 participants for each group, with an effect size (0.418), 95% power and
0.05 type 1 error, and was completed with 158 women. Data were collected with the
Introductory Information Form, the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Scale (MSQLS) and the
Female Genital Self-Image Scale (FGSIS). The research was conducted online via WhatsApp
between April and December 2023, using the snowball sampling method with participants who met
the inclusion criteria. In snowball sampling, first of all, contact was made with one of the
units of the universe. With the help of the contacted unit, a third unit was contacted. In
this way, the sample size expanded like a snowball growing. First, the participants around
the researchers were reached, and then the participants' circle was reached. The data
collection form was sent online to the participants in the sample and they were asked to fill
it out (pre-test). Two separate groups were opened on WhatsApp for the intervention and
control groups. It has been stated in the literature that video and informative message
interventions performed three days a week for 3-6 weeks are effective. For this reason, in
this study, the educational intervention included sending an informative video once a week
and informative messages three days a week for four weeks.18,19 In the intervention part of
the study, after all participants filled out the data collection form, the intervention group
was informed about Menopause once a week on the first day of each week for four weeks. An
information video prepared in line with the topics specified in the Symptom-Specific Training
Booklet has been sent. Informative messages were sent via WhatsApp three days a week, in
parallel with the training topic of each week (training intervention). No educational
intervention was given to the control group. After the training, a data collection form was
sent to both the intervention and control groups via WhatsApp and the participants were asked
to fill it out again (posttest). After the final test phase of the research was completed,
training videos and informative messages were sent to the participants in the control group
via WhatsApp. The data collection form was filled out using the self-report method in
approximately 10 minutes.
