Document Type : Original Article
Authors
- . Tahereh Mokhtaryan Gilani
- . Fatemeh Ghodrati 1
- . Zahra Yazdanpanahi 2
- . Sedigheh Amooee 3
- . Marzieh Akbarzadeh 4
1 Department of Theology, Faculty of Humanities Science College, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran
2 Department of Midwifery, Student Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
4 Department of Midwifery, Maternal‑Fetal Medicine Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Teaching religious principles can inevitably strengthen the mothers’ motivation
and may improve the infant’s growth indices. This study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching
religious principles on the infants’ growth and development from birth up to the age of 3 months.
METHODS: In a randomized controlled tria1, 84 primiparous women who had average or weak
religious attitude were randomly divided into intervention and control groups in 2013. The intervention
group attended six 90‑min sessions of religious education held once a week. The control group
received the routine pregnancy care. Data were collected through physical growth indices and
Denver’s questionnaire.
RESULTS: A significant difference was found between the intervention and control groups regarding
the head circumference at birth (34.61 ± 1.51 vs. 32.97 ± 6.98). Besides, a significant relationship
was observed between religious knowledge before delivery and infants’ development in gross motor
skills (P = 0.047, r = 0.114) and major motor skills (P = 0.019, r = 0.359) at 1 month of age, and
also language skills (P = 0.015, r = 0.119), major motor skills (P = 0.008, r = 0.404), and fine motor
skills (P = 0.035, r = 0.425) at the age of 3 months in the intervention group.
CONCLUSION: Training the pregnant mothers regarding religious principles was effective in some
indices of infants’ physical growth and development.
Keywords
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