The effect of planned home visits made to the mothers with premature babies after hospital-discharge upon their postpartum depression, adaptation to motherhood role and newborn?s health

Completed

• Conditions: Postpartum depression, adaptation to motherhood role and newborn?s health (nutritional problems, respiratory distress syndrome, anemia); Pregnancy and Childbirth; Mild mental and behavioural disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified

• Registration Number: ISRCTN24709858
• Lead Sponsor: Hitit University (Turkey)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-07-11
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Women who lived in the city center of Corum, gave birth before the 37th gestational week and accepted to participate in the research voluntarily were included in the research.

Exclusion Criteria

Those women and/or their babies who developed complications (mothers: postpartum hemorrhage, infection, etc.; babies: respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, neonatal asphyxia, etc.) and the women who had chronic diseases (heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes, renal diseases) were excluded from the study due to the idea that they may be affecting the results of the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified