The effect of indoor plant care on depression, anxiety and quality of life in postpartum women

Determining the effect of houseplant maintenance on depression, anxiety and quality of life in postpartum women

Clinical trial with control group, with parallel groups, double-blind, randomized using permutation blocking

Participants will be randomly divided into two groups. 5 days after delivery, pre-test will be given. The intervention group will be given a geranium pot. Mothers will be asked to take care of the plant for 6 weeks after delivery. Both groups are given a poster of the plants and asked to display the poster in a place 6 weeks after delivery. Then the post-test is performed and compared with the previous one. The blinds will be double-blind.

Inclusion criteria: willingness to cooperate in the study; lack of maintenance of houseplants; literacy; gestational age more than 34 weeks; multi parity; no history of cesarean section; women 18 to 45 years old; no fetal abnormalities; no dependence drugs and hookah use in the mother; no history of chronic diseases (such as diabetes, epilepsy, hypertension, heart disease, tuberculosis, previous infertility) according to the mother; no pregnancy complications (such as preeclampsia, placental disorders, cervical insufficiency, gestational diabetes); score less than 12 on the Depression Inventory and less than 31 on the Obvious Anxiety Scale on the Anxiety Pregnancy Questionnaire

5 days after delivery, the intervention group is given a geranium pot and the necessary training for optimal care of the geranium plant, and mothers are asked to take care of the plant for 6 weeks after delivery. The control group and the intervention group are given a number of posters of plants and are asked to display the poster in a place 6 weeks after delivery.

Postpartum depression, anxiety and quality of life

For random assignment of samples to each of the 2 intervention and control groups, 4 variable blocks are used. In this way, first 6 possible modes of 4 blocks (BBAA, BABA, ABBA, BAAB AABB, ABAB) are listed and each block is assigned a number from one to 6 using the dice. Then a number between one to 6 is randomly selected and then individuals are assigned to the intervention group (A) and control (B) based on the block corresponding to the selected number. This continues until the sample size is completed.

Blinding will be double-blind in such a way that the person collecting information and questionnaires and the person performing statistical analysis do not know the nature of research in the group (intervention and control).