Social support
Conditions
Interventions
In this research, the intervention will be the use of an educational manual titled "Preparing to follow the birth: what is important to know?", Being observed its effects on the following outcomes: im
Final Evaluation - Escorts
Final Evaluation - Puerperas.
During the interve
Behavioural
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Sponsors
Departamento de Enfermagem - Universidade Federal do Ceará
Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand (MEAC)
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The study population will be composed of two target groups: accompanying parturients who were admitted to the Maternity Center of the Maternity School Assis Chateaubriand (MEAC), between June and November of 2019; and puerperal women who have their companions involved in this research. The population will be divided into two groups: CONTROL GROUP (CG): group of accompanying persons eligible to participate in the research that will receive the routine guidelines, that is, guidelines performed in the delivery room by health professionals, academics, among others; as well as puerperal women who have their companions involved in this group. Thus, part of this group will be the puerperae and their respective participants who do not receive the educational intervention proposed by the researcher. INTERVENTION GROUP (GI): group of companions to whom an intervention will be carried out using the educational manual; For this, after the accompanying person is authorized by the MEAC social service to accompany the delivery at the Obstetric Center; he will be invited to participate in the study and, if so, the educational intervention will be applied. The joint reading of the manual has an average duration of twenty minutes, being interrupted to clarify doubts and questions made by the companion. During the intervention, it will be agreed with the companion not to make the manual available to other people, clarifying the justifications for this fact. The selection of the sample will follow the following inclusion criteria: be accompanying the choice of the woman patient; be accompanying nulliparas; have completed at least the fourth year of elementary school (level of education compatible with the readability index of Flash calculated for the manual evaluated here); as well as puerperal women who have companions with this profile; will also include all the puerperas who had, during the birthing process, the presence of companions who participated in this research in both groups.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The exclusion criteria will be: to present a state of physical or mental health compromised in order to make data collection unfeasible; have previous experience of witnessing delivery as a companion; participate in another intervention in the institution (Ex.:Roda de Conversa) The criteria for discontinuity will be: to accompany a parturient referred for cesarean section; give up participating in the study after the start of the collection; give up or be unable to follow labor / delivery; change of address and / or telephone that makes the contact unfeasible after the birth, if the only way to establish communication with the participant is by telephone.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Satisfaction of parturients who received support from the caregivers regarding the experience of labor and delivery between intervention and control groups, verified through the application of an instrument entitled Experimental Questionnaire and Satisfaction with Childbirth, from the observation of a variation in levels of puerperal satisfaction with childbirth comparing intervention and control groups. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Support provided by the companion during the process of parturition between intervention and control groups, from the perspective of the woman, verified through the application of an instrument called Birth Companion Support Questionnaire, from the finding of a variation in the levels of support provided by the companions comparing group intervention and control. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactIgor;Igor Mendes;Mendes
Departamento de Enfermagem - Universidade Federal do Ceará;Igor Cordeiro Mendes
Outcome results
None listed