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Study aim
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Determine the effect of counselling on coping with decision to continue an unplanned pregnancy
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Design
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The study is a randomized controlled clinical trial on 82 unplanned pregnant women referring to health centers of Tabriz. The participants will be randomly assigned in two groups of counselling and control with a 1: 1 ratio, using RAS software according to 4 and 6 blocks.
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Settings and conduct
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From 80 health centers of Tabriz,16 will be selected randomly. Then the participants will be selected through convenience sampling. After obtaining written consent form, pre-test questionnaires including
socio-demographic questionnaire, NU-PCI, PRAQ-R2, and worries and perceived threats of unplanned pregnant women will be completed. 4-8 weeks after the intervention, post-test questionnaires (NU-PCI, PRAQ-R2, and worries and perceived threats of unplanned pregnant women) will be completed.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria:15-49 years old married women, Unplanned pregnant women with decision to continue the pregnancy, Gaining 14 or higher scores in avoiding domain of the NU-PCI tool, Gaining 27 or higher scores in worries and perceived threats questionnaire.
Exclusion criteria: known psychiatric disorders according to women statements, Illegal pregnancies, Fetal anomaly, High risk Pregnancies, Family problems
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Intervention groups
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For the intervention group, four counselling sessions, once a week for 60 to 90 minutes would be held.
The Control group will receive only routine prenatal care.
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Main outcome variables
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The main outcome of the study is comparing the mean scores of coping strategies of unplanned pregnant women between the two groups, before and 4-8 weeks after intervention.