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The Effect of Maternal Role Training Program on Maternal Role Attainment Mother Infant and Father Infant Attachment

An interventional study of (Maternity Identity Development Training) in Care Pattern, Maternal, sponsored by Amasya University. Completed at 1 site in Turkey. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-14.

Sponsored by Amasya University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 2 years 2 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jun 2021, registered Sep 2023).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
109
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the effect of education prepared according to the Mother Role Attainment Theory on mothering role, mother-infant attachment,father-infant attachment Material and Method: The study was conducted with primiparous pregnant women and their spouses who applied to Amasya University Sabuncuoğlu Serefeddin Training and Research Hospital between June 2021 and May 2022 as a pretest-posttest quasi-trial model with a control group. The study was completed with 109 parents (54 experimental group, 55 control group). Introductory Information Form, Prenatal Attachment Scale, Semantic Difference Scale (Me as Mother - My Baby), Maternal Attachment Scale, Pharis Self-Confidence Scale, Prenatal Father Attachment Scale and Father-Baby Attachment Scale were used to collect data. Institutional and ethical permissions were obtained to start the research. As a nursing approach, a 4-session motherhood identity development training was given to the experimental group based on the Maternal Role Attainment Theory.Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square dependent and independent groups t test, Mann Whitney U test and Wilcoxon sign test were used in the analysis of the data.

Read the detailed description

After the pre-test was applied to the mother and father candidates included in the experimental group, "Maternity Identity Development Training" was given in the prenatal and postnatal period. This training program, based on Ramona T. Mercer's model of mothering role ability and covering four stages, was given to parents in their own homes by taking the necessary precautions, since it would be risky for the participants to be given in groups due to the COVID-19 Pandemic process. The training, which consisted of 2 sessions in the last trimester of pregnancy, 2 sessions at the end of the delivery before discharge and within the first week, and 4 sessions in total, lasted approximately 40 minutes. In addition, the parents in the training group were given a training booklet and the researcher's phone number for counseling and follow-up if needed.The training booklet, which contains the same information as the training content, was given to the parents in the experimental group at the end of the first training, and to the parents in the control group after the post-tests were administered.

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Conditions studied

  • Care Pattern, Maternal

Keywords

  • Attachment
  • Maternal Role
  • Nursing Approach
  • Mercer Maternal Role Attainment Theory
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In context

Lead sponsor

Amasya University is the lead sponsor of 78 studies on the registry; 22 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  • At least primary school graduate
  • Being at 28-32 weeks of gestation
  • Age range of 18-45
  • Married and living with her spouse
  • Living in the center of Amasya
  • Willingness to communication and cooperation
  • There is no risk in terms of maternal and fetal health.
  • Not having a psychiatric health problem

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Those outside the determined gestational week
  • Those who are closed to communication and cooperation
  • People living outside the city center of Amasya
  • Those with health problems or risky pregnancies were not included in the study. Exclusion Criteria
  • Loss of fetus
  • Not participating/completing the trainings for any reason
  • Change of residence outside the province
  • Giving birth in another hospital
  • Having maternal and/or newborn health problems
  • To fill in the assessment tests incompletely/not at all
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
109 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    experimental group

    As a nursing approach, a 4-session motherhood identity development training was given to the experimental group based on the Maternal Role Attainment Theory

    Behavioral: (Maternity Identity Development Training)

  • No intervention
    control group

    Not intervention

Interventions

  • Behavioral(Maternity Identity Development Training)

    Monitoring the Effect of the Education Given to Parents According to Maternal Role Ability Theory on Maternal Role Mother-Baby and Father-Infant Attachment

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Prenatal Father Attachment Scale

    The minimum score that can be obtained from the scale is 16, while the maximum score is 80. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of attachment also increases.

    Time frame: third trimester of pregnancy, before training

  2. Prenatal Attachment Inventory

    From the scale, where the level of attachment increases as the score increases, the lowest score can be 21 and the highest score can be 84. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of attachment also increases.

    Time frame: third trimester of pregnancy, before training

  3. Father-Baby Attachment Scale

    High scores indicate high levels of attachment.A high mean score is evaluated positively.Each item of the scale is scored from 1 to 5 and The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 19 and the highest score is 95. is changing

    Time frame: 42nd day postpartum

  4. Maternal Attachment Scale

    It is stated that as the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of attachment also increases.A high score indicates high maternal attachment. The lowest score obtained from the scale varies between 26 and the highest score 104.

    Time frame: 42nd day postpartum

  5. Semantic Differential Scale-Me as a Mother

    The lowest score from the scale is 11, the highest score is 77, and high scores indicate positive motherhood self-evaluation.

    Time frame: third trimester of pregnancy, before training and 42nd day postpartum

  6. Semantic Differential Scale-My Baby:

    The lowest score from the "My Baby" scale is 6, the highest score is 42, and high total scores indicate the evaluation of positive baby perception.

    Time frame: third trimester of pregnancy, before training and 42nd day postpartum

  7. Pharis Self-Confidence Scale

    The lowest score from the "Pharis Self-Confidence" scale is 1 and the highest score is 65, and high total score results indicate high self-confidence in baby care.

    Time frame: third trimester of pregnancy, before training and 42nd day postpartum

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Study locations

1 site
  • Amasya Universty
    Amasya, 05100, Turkey
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 14, 2024, 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
NCT06552884
Lead sponsor
Amasya University
Responsible party
Zeliha Karapelit (Lecturer, Amasya University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 14, 2024
Start date
Jun 15, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 15, 2021
Completion
May 10, 2022
Last update
Aug 14, 2024

Study contacts

Behice Erci, professor
study director · Inönü University

Oversight

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