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Benefits of an intervention with the use of an educational handbook in the support provided by caregivers in the delivery room

Not Applicable
Conditions
Social support
humanized birth
nursing care
I01.880.853.500.600
SP2.006.027.023
E02.760.611
Registration Number
RBR-29q75w
Lead Sponsor
Departamento de Enfermagem - Universidade Federal do Ceará
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot yet recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
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

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.

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
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