Effects of Postpartum Nurse Navigation Program

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effect of Nurse Navigation Program Developed for Postpartum Mothers on Mothers' Self-Care Power, Quality of Life, Anxiety and Depression Risks, and Physical Symptom Severity

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The study was planned as a two-group parallel randomized controlled experimental study in order to determine the effects of the nurse navigation program developed for mothers in the postpartum period on mothers' self-care power, quality of life, anxiety and depression risks, and physical symptom severity. The study will be carried out in Ankara Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Gynecology Training and Research Hospital. The population of the research will be primiparous mothers who gave birth vaginally in Ankara.

Clinical Trial Description

Primiparous pregnant women who come to the pregnancy outpatient clinic, are at 36 weeks of gestation or more, meet the inclusion criteria and volunteer, will be informed about the program and will be included in the sample of the study. There will be two groups assigned by the stratified block randomization method in the study. The number of samples to be taken into the control and intervention groups was determined by power analysis and the sample size was planned to be 32 mothers for the intervention group and 32 mothers for the control group. In addition to routine hospital care, the intervention group will receive navigation program-based nursing care that includes three home visits, three phone calls, and sending text messages at five different times. The control group will not receive any intervention other than routine hospital care practices. The data of the research; "Data Collection Form on Descriptive Characteristics", "Postpartum Mother and Newborn Evaluation and Diagnosis Form", "Mother and Newborn Problems Evaluation Form in the Postpartum Period", "Mother and Baby Follow-up Evaluation Form in the Postpartum Period", "Self-Care Power" Scale', 'Postpartum Quality of Life Scale', 'Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale', 'Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale' and 'Physical Symptom Severity Scale' will be collected using descriptive statistics (number, min., mean, standard deviation, standard deviation) in the evaluation of the data. max.) will be used. The conformity of the data to the normal distribution will be evaluated with the Shapiro Wilks test. The relationship between them in qualitative variables will be evaluated with the chi-square test and Fisher's exact test. The Cochran Q test will be used to examine change over time. In numerical variables, according to the normal distribution; In independent groups, t test, Mann Whitney U test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kruskal Wallis Analysis will be used. Before and after repeated measurements, according to the normal distribution; In repeated measurements, one-way analysis of variance or Friedman test will be used. Significance will be evaluated at the p<0.05 level. The independent variables of the research will be stated as numbers and percentages. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depression, Postpartum
• Depressive Disorder
• Nurse's Role
• Nursing Caries
• Postpartum Anxiety
• Postpartum Depression
• Postpartum Disorder
• Puerperal Disorders
• Quality of Life

• NCT number: NCT05225987
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Hacettepe University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2021
• Completion date: December 24, 2021