Investigating the Effect of Multimedia training on the Anxiety and Childbirth Experience of women with Planned Cesarean Section

Determining the effect of Multimedia training on the Anxiety and Childbirth Experience of women with planned Cesarean section

A controlled, parallel-group, unblinded, randomized clinical trial on 140 pregnant women. Blocks of four will be used for random allocation.

This study is a parallel randomized clinical trial with a control group on 140 pregnant women who between the 35th and 37th week of pregnancy refer to the perinatal clinic of Akbarabadi Hospital to receive pregnancy care and are scheduled to undergo a planned cesarean delivery with anesthesia. Spinal cord will be done. For women in the test group individually, a 4-6 minute educational video including all aspects of cesarean surgery will be shown in the consultation room of the clinic on the researcher's laptop. The control group will not receive any intervention.

Inclusion criteria: being Iranian, women aged 18 to 45, ability to read and write Exclusion criteria: suspicion of congenital anomaly of the fetus, known mental disorder or history of taking anti-anxiety drugs and tranquilizers, history of infertility

In the test group, a 4-6 minute individual training session will be shown on the researcher's laptop in the form of multimedia training based on educational video, including all aspects of cesarean section. Then this video is provided to the mother through messenger for unlimited viewing at home. There is no intervention for people in the control group.

Anxiety score from the Spielberger Anxiety Questionnaire ; Childbirth Experience score

The allocation of people in the test and control group will be done using the quadruple block method (probabilistic type) using the site http://randomization.com/. Blocking is such that in this study, with 140 sample people, 70 people will be allocated to each group (the test group is considered to be A and the control group is considered to be B). Two defaults are considered, the size of each block is at least twice the number of groups (4 groups in each block) and the number of repetitions of groups is equal. According to the sample size of 140 people and the size of each block is 4, finally 35 blocks will be obtained. Then, using the site http://randomization.com/, the order of placement of the blocks and as a result the people of the test and control group is determined using the software. In order to hide the random allocation process, the names of the groups will be placed in opaque envelopes, and these envelopes will be numbered from 1 to 140 and arranged in a box. The researcher who conducts the sampling is unaware of the contents of the envelopes. The content of the envelopes will indicate the study groups, and after entering the study and completing the informed consent form, the participants will pick the first envelope in order of number and according to the content of the envelope, they will be placed in one of the two test and control groups.