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CompletedNCT05225987Updated Feb 23, 2022

Effects of Postpartum Nurse Navigation Program

An interventional study of Postpartum Nurse Navigation Program based care in Nursing Caries, Nurse's Role and Postpartum Depression, sponsored by Hacettepe University. Completed at 1 site in Turkey. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-02-23.

Sponsored by Hacettepe University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
61
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
Female
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Study 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.

Read the detailed 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.

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Conditions studied

  • Nursing Caries
  • Nurse's Role
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Quality of Life
  • Postpartum Disorder

Keywords

  • Postpartum
  • Nurse Navigation Program
  • Quality of life
  • Self care power
  • Postpartum depression
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In context

Depression, Postpartum

569 studies on the registry are indexed under Depression, Postpartum; 134 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 61 is below the median of 104 across 454 interventional studies indexed under Depression, Postpartum.

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Lead sponsor

Hacettepe University is the lead sponsor of 1,007 studies on the registry; 214 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. between the ages of 18-45
  2. gestational week ≥36,
  3. primiparous and singleton pregnancy,
  4. no vision and hearing problems,
  5. able to communicate via telephone,
  6. no complications during pregnancy and delivery (preeclampsia; eclapsia; diabetes; 7. hypertension; heart disease; kidney failure; /AIDS)
  1. pregnant women will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Mothers who were illiterate,
  2. had problems in communicating,
  3. did not have a mobile phone of their own,
  4. residing outside the province of Ankara,
  5. had mental disability and severe mental illness and
  6. had preterm or postterm birth will exclude from the study.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
61 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimantal Group

    Postpartum Nurse Navigation Program based care

    Behavioral: Postpartum Nurse Navigation Program based care

  • No intervention
    Control group

    This group will take routin care

Interventions

  • BehavioralPostpartum Nurse Navigation Program based care

    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.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Self-Care Power Scale Score

    The Self-Care Power Scale was developed by Kearney and Fleischer (1979) to determine individuals' ability to take care of themselves. Its Turkish validity and reliability was determined by Nahçıvan (1993), and the Cronbach α coefficient of the scale was stated as 0.89 (Nahcivan, 2004). The Scale consists of 35 items. Each item of this 5-point Likert-type scale, according to the answer given; It is evaluated by giving 0 points for the answer "Doesn't describe me at all", and 4 points for the answer "It describes me a lot". Evaluation is made out of a total of 140 points. Below 82 points is considered as low, 82-120 points as medium, above 120 points as high (Nahcivan, 2004).

    Time frame: 5 months

  2. Postpartum Quality of Life Scale Score

    It was developed by Hill et al (2006) to evaluate the postpartum quality of life of mothers. The Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was carried out by Altuntuğ and Ege (2012), and the internal consistency coefficient of the scale was determined as 0.95 in the study (Altuntuğ \& Ege, 2012). In the first part of the scale, satisfaction with each item is questioned, and in the second part, the importance is questioned. All items are evaluated on a 6-point Likert scale. Satisfaction and Significance sections of the scale are numbered from 1 to 6. 1=Not at all Satisfied, 2=Moderately Dissatisfied, 3=Slightly Dissatisfied, 4=Slightly Satisfied, 5=Moderately Satisfied, 6=Very Satisfied. The Quality of Life Score is in the range of 0-30. The higher the score obtained from the scale, the higher the person's postpartum quality of life, and lower scores the lower the postpartum quality of life (Hill et al. 2006, Altuntuğ \& Ege, 2012).

    Time frame: 5 months

  3. Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale Score

    Fallon et al. (2016) to evaluate postpartum anxiety symptoms (Fallon et al, 2016). The Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was conducted by Duran (2019), and the internal consistency coefficient of the scale was determined as 0.91 in the study (Duran, 2019). The scale consists of 51 items. It has been stated that those who score 73 and below on the scale have low postpartum anxiety levels, those who score between 74 and 100 have a medium level, and those who score 101 and above have a high level (Duran, 2019). The scale was administered within 6 months of postpartum and it was recommended to be used during this period. In the development of the scale, retests were performed 2 weeks after the scale was applied (Fallon et al, 2016).

    Time frame: 5 months

  4. Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale Score

    It was developed by Cox (1987). The scale is a self-report scale aimed at screening postpartum depression in women (Cox et al, 1987). The Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was carried out by Engindeniz et al. (1996), and they found the internal consistency coefficient of the scale as 0.79 (Engindeniz et al., 1996). In this study, the Cronbach α value of the scale will be calculated. EPDS consists of 10 items. Each item of the scale is evaluated in a 4-point Likert format and the answer given to each item is scored between 0 and 3 (0, 1, 2, 3). The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 0, and the highest score is 30. In the evaluation of the scale, the 1st, 2nd and 4th items are scored as 0-1-2-3, while the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th items are scored as 3-2-1-0. are scored inversely. The cut-off point of the scale is 12. Women with a score of 12 and above are considered to be at risk for depression (Engindeniz, 1996).

    Time frame: 5 months

  5. Physical Symptom Severity Scale Score

    The scale was developed by Cine et al (2009) and aims to determine the prevalence and persistence of postpartum physical symptoms (Chien et al, 2009). The Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was carried out by Arkan (2016). In the study of Arkan (2016), the internal consistency of the scale was determined to be at a very reliable level (Cronbach α=0.79). In this study, the cronbach α value of the scale will be calculated. The scale consists of 18 items. Each item of the scale is in a 4-point Likert format and these items are evaluated as 0 (absent), 1 (mild), 2 (moderate), and 3 (high). Scale total score ranges from 0 to 54. High scores obtained from the scale indicate that the severity of postpartum physical symptoms is high (Arkan, 2016).

    Time frame: 5 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Health Sciences Etlik Zübeyde Hanim Gyn Diseases Education and Research Hospital
    Ankara, 06010, Turkey
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — There is a plan to make IPD and related data dictionaries available.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Clinical study report

Time frame: march, 2022

Access criteria: When the study is converted into a protocol or an article, it will be published in an international journal by the researchers.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Jun 2021 to primary completion in Dec 2021, 6 months.

Of 256 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Depression, Postpartum, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 36. This study's 6 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 262 studies reached it within 23 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 36.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 11, 2021
First posted
Feb 7, 2022
StartActual
Jun 1, 2021
Primary completionActual
Dec 24, 2021
CompletionActual
Dec 24, 2021
Last update
Feb 23, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 23, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05225987
Responsible party
Pinar Uzunkaya Oztoprak (Principal Investigator, Hacettepe University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 7, 2022
Start date
Jun 1, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 24, 2021
Completion
Dec 24, 2021
Last update
Feb 23, 2022

Study contacts

Gülten Koç
study director · Hacettepe University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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