Fear of ChildbirthNCT06941493
Effect of Normal Birth Simulation and Podcast Training Given to Pregnant Women on Birth Fear, Belief and Self-Efficacy
An observational study of Fear of Childbirth and Childbirth Education, run by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.
Trial summary
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health education is "educational practices carried out in order to provide individuals, families and society with a healthy lifestyle, to adopt and implement the measures to be taken to improve their health, to get them used to using the health services offered, to… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 35 years, women onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Fear of Childbirth, Childbirth Education
- How many people
- 114 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 16 May 2025to 31 Dec 2025
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 35 years
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult
Study population: Healthy pregnant women aged 18-35 years, planning to give birth normally and participating in prenatal education programs
Inclusion criteria Able to speak, understand and write Turkish,
- Those between the ages of 18-35
- Spontaneous pregnancy,
- Primiparous pregnant women
- 30-34. week of pregnancy
- Any health problems (hypertension, heart, diabetes, tuberculosis, HIV, cancer, etc.) non-
- Singleton pregnancy
- Participating in routine pregnancy education class
- Having a phone with internet connection for training meetings Exclusion criteria from the study
- Pregnant women diagnosed with medium and high risk pregnancy (such as oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, heart disease, diabetes, placenta previa)
- Presence of any diagnosed psychiatric disease (such as anxiety, depression)
Trial locations and contacts
No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
About this study
Official title: Effect of Normal Birth Simulation and Podcast Training Given to Pregnant Women on Birth Fear, Belief and Self-Efficacy: Randomized Controlled Study
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health education is "educational practices carried out in order to provide individuals, families and society with a healthy lifestyle, to adopt and implement the measures to be taken to improve their health, to get them used to using the health services offered, to persuade them to improve their health and their environment, to make them reach a common decision and to direct them to action" . As in all stages of life, it is known that the trainings given during pregnancy contribute to the protection of maternal and infant health. The aim of childbirth preparation trainings given for a healthy pregnancy and birth process is to develop positive health behaviors in line with the needs of the person, to increase confidence in oneself and one's body, to reduce the stress caused by the fear and uncertainty associated with childbirth encoded since the past, to ensure the desire to give birth normally and to ensure secure mother-baby bonding. Although prenatal education has positive contributions to the pregnancy and birth process, it has been determined that the verbal expression of the teaching style of routine prenatal education leads to a passive acceptance without establishing a cause and effect relationship by weakening the learning effect and moving away from mutual interaction. In the study conducted by Downe et al. (2019), it was determined that routine prenatal education was insufficient to meet the information needs of women. It is thought that prenatal education prepared through simulation and podcast by utilizing the advantages of digital technology on health education can be useful in increasing women's beliefs and self- efficacy towards normal delivery, reducing their fear of childbirth, increasing their knowledge levels and eliminating misinformation. From this point of view, our study is aimed to bring innovation to the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of simulation and podcast education used in prenatal education on pregnant women's fear of childbirth, birth beliefs and birth self-efficacy.
he main questions it aims to answer are
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Research question 1: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect fear of childbirth? Research question 2: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect birth self-efficacy? Research question 3: Does education for pregnant women affect birth beliefs? To see if the drug ABC treats severe asthma, the researchers will compare it to a placebo (a substance that looks like a drug, but does not contain one).
To assess the effectiveness of prenatal education, the researchers will Group 1 will be trained with simulated labor for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 2 will be shown podcast videos simulating childbirth for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 3 will be provided with routine prenatal education
- Conditions
- Fear of Childbirth, Childbirth Education
- Keywords
- Pregnancy, prenatal education, simulation, podcasd
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| simulation training group | Normal birth simulation training will be given to this group for an average of 1 hour for 4 weeks in the simulation laboratory of Bucak School of Health. | |
| podcast eğitim grubu | The podcast group will be sent a 20-minute podcast video in parallel with the simulation group for 4 weeks In the first session, the podcast file prepared by the researcher will be uploaded to the smartphones of the pregnant women and it will be checked that the file works smoothly. Pregnant women will be called in the relevant weeks to confirm whether they are watching the podcast and whether there are any problems. | |
| control group | No intervention will be made to the control group by the research team, this group will only complete the standard prenatal education process in the pregnant class. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Wijma Birth Expectancy/Expectation Questionnaire (W-DEQ) A Version
The "Wijma Birth Expectancy/Expectation Scale A Version (W-DEQ A)" developed by K. Wijma et al. in Sweden in 1998 was adapted into Turkish by Körükçü et al. in 2012. The W-DEQ consists of 33 items and is a six-point Likert-type scale. Item responses are numbered from 0 to 5, with 0 indicating "completely" and 5 indicating "not at all". The minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 165. The cut-off value is 85 points and a score of 85 and above is expressed as clinical fear. A high total score means that the degree of fear experienced is also high.
W-DEQ score ≤ 37 mildly,
- W-DEQ score = 38-65 moderate,
- W-DEQ score = 66-84 in severe degree,
- W-DEQ score ≥ 85 indicates a clinical degree of fear. Questions 2, 3, 6, 7, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27 and 31 in the scale are negatively loaded and are calculated by inverting them in the opposite direction in order to ensure compliance in the measurement. The cronbach alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.89
Measured: 30-34 weeks of gestation
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted23 Apr 2025
- Study start16 May 2025 (estimated)
- Primary completion31 Dec 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion31 Dec 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Fear of ChildbirthStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
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More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Other
- Enrolment
- 114 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Sema Göçmez, Eskisehir Osmangazi University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06941493
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- GO 2025/1004
- Status last verified
- May 2025
- First submitted
- 16 Apr 2025
- Last updated
- 8 May 2025
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 8 May 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Effect of Normal Birth Simulation and Podcast Training Given to Pregnant Women on Birth Fear, Belief and Self-Efficacy: Randomized Controlled Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06941493
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- GO 2025/1004
- Conditions
- Fear of Childbirth, Childbirth Education
- Keywords
- Pregnancy, prenatal education, simulation, podcasd
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 114 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 16 May 2025 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- 31 Dec 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 31 Dec 2025 (estimated)
- First posted
- 23 Apr 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health education is "educational practices carried out in order to provide individuals, families and society with a healthy lifestyle, to adopt and implement the measures to be taken to improve their health, to get them used to using the health services offered, to persuade them to improve their health and their environment, to make them reach a common decision and to direct them to action" . As in all stages of life, it is known that the trainings given during pregnancy contribute to the protection of maternal and infant health. The aim of childbirth preparation trainings given for a healthy pregnancy and birth process is to develop positive health behaviors in line with the needs of the person, to increase confidence in oneself and one's body, to reduce the stress caused by the fear and uncertainty associated with childbirth encoded since the past, to ensure the desire to give birth normally and to ensure secure mother-baby bonding. Although prenatal education has positive contributions to the pregnancy and birth process, it has been determined that the verbal expression of the teaching style of routine prenatal education leads to a passive acceptance without establishing a cause and effect relationship by weakening the learning effect and moving away from mutual interaction. In the study conducted by Downe et al. (2019), it was determined that routine prenatal education was insufficient to meet the information needs of women. It is thought that prenatal education prepared through simulation and podcast by utilizing the advantages of digital technology on health education can be useful in increasing women's beliefs and self- efficacy towards normal delivery, reducing their fear of childbirth, increasing their knowledge levels and eliminating misinformation. From this point of view, our study is aimed to bring innovation to the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of simulation and podcast education used in prenatal education on pregnant women's fear of childbirth, birth beliefs and birth self-efficacy.
he main questions it aims to answer are
Research question 1: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect fear of childbirth? Research question 2: Do the trainings given to pregnant women affect birth self-efficacy? Research question 3: Does education for pregnant women affect birth beliefs? To see if the drug ABC treats severe asthma, the researchers will compare it to a placebo (a substance that looks like a drug, but does not contain one).
To assess the effectiveness of prenatal education, the researchers will Group 1 will be trained with simulated labor for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 2 will be shown podcast videos simulating childbirth for 4 weeks in addition to routine pregnancy education Group 3 will be provided with routine prenatal education
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Other
- Number of arms
- 3
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| simulation training group | – | –Normal birth simulation training will be given to this group for an average of 1 hour for 4 weeks in the simulation laboratory of Bucak School of Health. |
| podcast eğitim grubu | – | –The podcast group will be sent a 20-minute podcast video in parallel with the simulation group for 4 weeks In the first session, the podcast file prepared by the researcher will be uploaded to the smartphones of the pregnant women and it will be checked that the file works smoothly. Pregnant women will be called in the relevant weeks to confirm whether they are watching the podcast and whether there are any problems. |
| control group | – | –No intervention will be made to the control group by the research team, this group will only complete the standard prenatal education process in the pregnant class. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 35 years
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
- Study population
- Healthy pregnant women aged 18-35 years, planning to give birth normally and participating in prenatal education programs
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Wijma Birth Expectancy/Expectation Questionnaire (W-DEQ) A Version
Time frame: 30-34 weeks of gestation
The "Wijma Birth Expectancy/Expectation Scale A Version (W-DEQ A)" developed by K. Wijma et al. in Sweden in 1998 was adapted into Turkish by Körükçü et al. in 2012. The W-DEQ consists of 33 items and is a six-point Likert-type scale. Item responses are numbered from 0 to 5, with 0 indicating "completely" and 5 indicating "not at all". The minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 165. The cut-off value is 85 points and a score of 85 and above is expressed as clinical fear. A high total score means that the degree of fear experienced is also high. W-DEQ score ≤ 37 mildly, * W-DEQ score = 38-65 moderate, * W-DEQ score = 66-84 in severe degree, * W-DEQ score ≥ 85 indicates a clinical degree of fear. Questions 2, 3, 6, 7, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27 and 31 in the scale are negatively loaded and are calculated by inverting them in the opposite direction in order to ensure compliance in the measurement. The cronbach alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.89
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 8 May 2025.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Fear of Childbirth and Childbirth Education, run by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 May 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Sema Göçmez (+ 0 248 213 82 50, semagocmez@icloud.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Wijma Birth Expectancy/Expectation Questionnaire (W-DEQ) A Version (time frame: 30-34 weeks of gestation). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 8 May 2025; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 26 Oct 2026.