Comparison of the impact of the national announced with proposed content of antenatal classes on the childbirth experience of pregnant women attending health centers in Mashhad

Comparison of the effect of national notification content with the suggestion of childbirth preparation classes on childbirth experience in pregnant women referring to Mashhad health centers.

This study is a randomized controlled trial, with a control group, with parallel groups, one blind, on 100 pregnant women. The method of randomization is cluster type.

Mashhad health centers that are equipped with childbirth preparation classes and the necessary facilities for mothers to participate in the classes.

Inclusion: pregnant mothers with primiparous births, mother's age 18-35 years, gestational age at least 20 weeks, singleton pregnancy, having minimum literacy, predicting the possibility of having a natural birth, absence of currently known pregnancy complications, no history of medical illness or drug use, no history of infertility or use of assisted reproduction methods, no contraindications to exercise during pregnancy. Exclusion: having experience of participating in childbirth preparation classes elsewhere than this study, having pathological tokophobia from childbirth.

Intervention group: pregnant women referring to health centers in Mashhad who participate in childbirth preparation classes according to the revised instructions. Control group: pregnant women referring to health centers in Mashhad who participate in childbirth preparation classes according to national guidelines.

Birth experience Including 4 dimensions (individual ability, sense of security and control, professional support and participation)

The random method in this study is randomly classified in such a way that we randomly divide Mashhad's health-treatment centers into two groups in order to control the confounding factor (socio-economic). Then, I will select six centers from these centers and we will require these centers to be equipped with standard facilities and equipment to hold childbirth preparation classes for mothers to participate in the classes, so that they are at the same level in terms of facilities and equipment. take In the next step, we randomly classify these six centers into two groups again (by lottery) so that the referring mothers in each group are randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. In addition, this study has no concealment.

This research is a randomized controlled trial of a blind strain. In this study, the mothers participating in the class are not aware of what content is being taught to them and they have no knowledge of the old communicated content or the new suggested content.