This study aims to determine the effect of motivational interviews made with primiparous pregnant women with low belief in normal birth on medical and natural birth belief. This randomized controlled study was conducted in a randomized controlled manner with a total of 148 pregnant women who applied to the obstetrics outpatient clinic of a hospital in eastern Turkey (74 trials, 74 controls). In the study, a total of four sessions of motivational interviews were conducted with the primiparous pregnant women in the experimental group, one week apart. No intervention was applied to the women in the control group. Research data Personal Information Form, Belief Scale for Normal Delivery (BSND) and Birth Beliefs (Natural and medical birth belief) Scale (BBS) were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's chi-square test, and dependent and independent t-test were used to analyze the data.
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Belief Scale for Normal Delivery (BSND)
Timeframe: up to 4 weeks
Birth Beliefs (Natural and medical birth belief) Scale (BBS)
Timeframe: Baseline and 4 weeks