Guided Imagery: Reducing Stress and Improving Well-being in Pregnant Adolescents

Stress, Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title:

Guided Imagery: Reducing Stress and Improving Well-being in Pregnant Adolescents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02636374
• Other study ID #: 2015-0105
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2018

Study information

• Verified date: November 2018
• Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a guided imagery intervention on perceived stress in pregnant adolescents.

Description:

Pregnant adolescents attending a local alternative education program will be subjects of this study. Students will participate in four, 15 minute guided imagery sessions over about a 4-6 week period. They will complete a pregnancy specific stress questionnaire before beginning and after completion of the guided imagery protocol. The students will also complete a short 9-question stress measure before and after each of the individual guided imagery sessions.

The specific aims are:

1. to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention reduces perceived stress in pregnant adolescents; and

2. to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention enhances well-being in pregnant adolescents.

The hypotheses are that the intervention will reduce perceived stress and enhance well-being in these subjects. The purpose of this study is to assess whether employing a guided imagery intervention with pregnant teens and education will reduce perceived stress levels and improve well-being.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: November 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 13 Years to 21 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All pregnant students ages 13-21 enrolled in the alternative education program for parenting teens were eligible to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants were excluded from the study if they delivered their babies prior to completing four sessions of guided imagery intervention.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Guided Imagery
A fifteen minute recording of gentle music together with soft talking to guide relaxation.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Psychological Stress Measure-9 (PSM-9) score	Participants will complete the PSM-9 before and after listening to guided imagery sessions for each of the 4 weekly intervention sessions. The Psychological Stress Measure-9 (PSM-9) is a 9 item questionnaire measuring stress. The original form was published in Canada by Louise Lemyre, PHD and Rejean Tessier, PHD in 1988 and the 9 item was published in 2002. Each response rests on an 8 point likert scale. For general surveys of health and well-being in the workplace, an abridged 9-item version was developed to meet a variety of research needs and applications. The PSM-9 version is used at Hydro-Quebec and Renault (France) as well as in public service, hospitals, community services, and private practice. It has the same psychometric qualities of reliability, validity, and internal consistency (.89) and maintains the same heuristic value for statistics: normality of distribution and responsiveness (Lemyre, Chair, & Lalande-Markon, 2009).	4 weeks