An interventional study of Birth Dance in Anxiety, Pregnancy and Labor Pain, sponsored by Ergani State Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Open to female participants. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-29.
Sponsored by Ergani State Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
This randomized controlled study was conducted to determine the effects of birth dance on birth beliefs, perceptions of supportive care needs, and anxiety levels in primiparous women. The study will be conducted with primiparous women in the experimental and control groups. The Birth Beliefs Scale, the Scale of Women's Perception for Supportive Care Given During Labor (SWPSCDL), and anxiety level assessments will be used to evaluate outcomes. The relationship between birth beliefs and anxiety levels will be examined.
This randomized controlled study aims to determine the effects of birth dance on birth beliefs, perceptions of supportive care, and anxiety levels in primiparous women.
Methods: This randomized controlled trial will be conducted at Ergani State Hospital Maternity Ward. The study will include 128 primiparous women, with 64 women in the experimental group and 64 women in the control group, who meet the inclusion criteria.
Data will be obtained using the Personal Information Form, Birth Belief Scale (BBS), State Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Scale of Women's Perception for Supportive Care Given During Labor (SWPSCDL).
Intervention: Women in the experimental group will perform birth dance with support during the active phase of labor. Women in the control group will receive standard routine care.
Primary outcomes are birth beliefs, anxiety level, and perception of supportive care during labor, which will be compared between the two groups.
423 studies on the registry are indexed under Labor Pain; 74 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 124 is above the median of 100 across 347 interventional studies indexed under Labor Pain.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Women in this group received birth dance training and performed birth dance during active labor with midwife support.
Behavioral: Birth Dance
Women in this group received routine hospital care without birth dance intervention.
Birth dance training was provided to pregnant women in the experimental group. During the active phase of labor, participants performed rhythmic dance movements accompanied by music with midwife support. The intervention aims to reduce labor pain, decrease anxiety, and improve childbirth experience.
Anxiety and Birth Beliefs
Anxiety will be assessed using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Birth beliefs will be assessed using the Medical and Natural Birth Belief Scales. All measurements will be compared between experimental and control groups of primiparous women.
Time frame: Baseline and immediately after birth
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