Journal of Education and Health Promotion

The impact of education on attachment skills in the promotion of happiness among women with unplanned pregnancy

. Fahimeh Hasanzadeh; . Maasumeh Kaviani; . Marzieh Akbarzadeh

Volume 10, Issue 8 , August 2020, , Pages 1-8

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BACKGROUND: Happiness is among the factors that promote mental health in mothers withunplanned pregnancy. The present study aimed to determine the impact of attachment skills trainingon ... Read More BACKGROUND: Happiness is among the factors that promote mental health in mothers withunplanned pregnancy. The present study aimed to determine the impact of attachment skills trainingon happiness among women with unplanned pregnancy.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This clinical trial was conducted on 84 women with unplannedpregnancy referred to three prenatal clinics in Shiraz in 2018. The participants were randomly dividedinto an intervention group and a control group using permutation block. At first, the participants wererequested to sign written informed consent form, demographic information form, and mental healthquestionnaire. Then, they were asked to complete Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and Cranley’sMaternal-Fetal Attachment Scale. The intervention group received attachment training through six90-min sessions, while the control group underwent the hospital’s routine care. The two groups wererequired to fill out the study questionnaires once more after 4 weeks after the intervention. After all,the data were analyzed using Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, independent t-test, and ANOVA.RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the two groups’ pretest and posttest meanscores of happiness (P = 0.0001). The results showed that in the experimental group, pretraining andposttraining period mean scores were 89.64 (7.2) and 93.13 (6.09), respectively; while in the controlgroup, pretraining and posttraining period mean scores were, respectively, 91.69 (9.96) and 91 (8.82).The difference between the two groups was statistically significant. No significant relationship wasobserved between happiness and the couples’ occupations, number of pregnancies, and numberof miscarriages in the two groups (P > 0.05).CONCLUSION: The mean score of happiness increased after the training, being significantly differentfrom that in the control group. Therefore, happiness is a changeable feature that can be promotedamong pregnant women via interventional methods.

Effect of maternal role training program based on Mercer theory on maternal self‑confidence of primiparous women with unplanned pregnancy

. Maryam Fasanghari; . Masoumeh Kordi; . Negar Asgharipour

Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 1-8

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INTRODUCTION: Maternal confidence is an extremely important factor in playing the mother’s roleand her identity formation. Loss of self‑confidence occurs in primiparous women ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Maternal confidence is an extremely important factor in playing the mother’s roleand her identity formation. Loss of self‑confidence occurs in primiparous women due to the lack ofmaternal skills. Obtaining the behaviors of maternal role and self‑confidence, the mother providesbetter care for her child. Hence, the aim of this study was to examine the effect of maternal roletraining program based on Mercer theory on maternal self‑confidence of primiparous women withunplanned pregnancy.METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH: This clinical trial was performed on 67 primiparouswomen referring to Mashhad health centers. Individuals were randomly divided into interventionand control groups. A maternal role training program based on Mercer theory was carried out forintervention group (three sessions of group training in the 34th, 35th, and 36th weeks of pregnancyand one individual training session before discharge from the hospital and then, weekly follow‑upover the phone for 4 weeks). The control group received the normal pregnancy care. The researchtools were questionnaires of demographic characteristics, London, DASS 21, Edinburgh PostnatalDepression Scale, Parenting Sense of Competence, General Impressions on Infant TemperamentQuestionnaire, and Six Simple Questions. Maternal self‑confidence was measured before training,4 weeks after delivery, and 4 months after delivery. Data analysis was carried out using independentt‑test, Chi‑square test, paired t‑test, Mann–Whitney test, one‑way ANOVA, and Wilcoxon test. P < 0.05was considered statistically significant.RESULTS: There was a significant difference between mean maternal self‑confidencechanges (before training and 4 weeks after delivery (P = 0.003) and before training and 4 monthsafter delivery (P = 0.001) in both groups. After eliminating the effect of interventional variables, themean scores of maternal self‑confidence after training in the intervention group had a statisticallysignificant difference with that in the control group (P = 0.001).CONCLUSIONS: Maternal role training program based on Mercer theory increases maternalself‑confidence in primiparous women with unplanned pregnancy. Teaching maternal role isrecommended to all health‑care providers.

The effect of maternal role training program on role attainment and maternal role satisfaction in nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy

. Masoumeh Kordi; . Maryam Fasanghari; . Negar Asgharipour; . Habibollah Esmaily

Volume 7, Issue 4 , July and August 2017, , Pages 1-8

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INTRODUCTION: The maternal role is one of the most basic and important roles played bywomen during their lifetime. The process of the maternal role starts during pregnancy andto continue ... Read More INTRODUCTION: The maternal role is one of the most basic and important roles played bywomen during their lifetime. The process of the maternal role starts during pregnancy andto continue and develop after postpartum with the growth of suckling. However, unplannedpregnancy may jeopardize achieving the maternal role and reduce maternal role satisfaction.Therefore, the researcher conducted the present study to determine the impact of maternalrole training program on attainment of role and role satisfaction in nulliparous women withunplanned pregnancy.METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH: In this clinical trial, the researcher divided 67 nulliparouswomen with unplanned pregnancies into two groups at random by drawing lots. For theintervention group, in addition to the usual pregnancy care, the researcher conducted 3 grouptraining sessions at weeks 34, 35, and 36 of pregnancy and an individual training session in the1st day after delivery before release; then, during the next 4 weeks, the researcher made follow‑upphone calls each week. The control group received the usual pregnancy care. The researchtools included London questionnaire to measure unplanned pregnancy, Myself‑As‑MotherScale (SD‑Self), My‑Baby Scale (SD‑Baby), Perceived Competence Scale to measure maternalrole attainment, and Parenting Sense of Competence Scale to measure maternal role satisfaction.The researcher measured the maternal role attainment and maternal role satisfaction beforetraining and 4 weeks after delivery. The researcher analyzed the data using SPSS softwareversion 21 and statistical tests such as independent t‑test, Chi‑square, paired sample t‑test,Mann–Whitney, one‑way analysis of variance, and Wilcoxon. The amount of P was supposedto be <0.05.RESULTS: The mean age of research units was 24.10 ± 4.3. Twenty‑one persons (60%) in theintervention group and ten persons (31.3%) in the control group attained the maternal role (P = 0.019)and changes to achieve the maternal role in intervention group were significantly more than the controlgroup (P = 0.002). Changes in the mean scores of maternal role satisfaction in the intervention groupwere significantly more than the control group (P = 0.023).CONCLUSION: Maternal role training for nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy duringpregnancy and postpartum period can help them in maternal role attainment and maternal rolesatisfaction.

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The impact of education on attachment skills in the promotion of happiness among women with unplanned pregnancy

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Effect of maternal role training program based on Mercer theory on maternal self‑confidence of primiparous women with unplanned pregnancy

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The effect of maternal role training program on role attainment and maternal role satisfaction in nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy

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