Mindfulness-based Prenatal Education on Women

Effects of Mindfulness-based Prenatal Education on Biopsychological Health for Prenatal Mental Disorders Women

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences between stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infants bonding, salivary amylase activity, and postnatal maternal outcomes for prenatal mental disorders in women with mindfulness prenatal education program

The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of a Mindfulness prenatal education program in reducing pregnant women's perceived stress, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, mother and infant bonding, and salivary alpha-amylase compared to a control group. The investigators hypothesize that using the mindfulness prenatal education program by the study group will lead to improved related mood symptoms compared with the control group.

Randomized Controlled Trial comparing two education programs with health and singleton pregnant women is run by the Random Allocation Software (Saghaei, 2004). Use the G-Power 3.1.9 windows: repeated measures and between factors among two groups to calculate the number of samples, and setting the power = .8, α = .05, effect size = .25. The estimated number of samples may be lost 30%, total 102 samples.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects were at the age over 20
• Could speak and read Chinese fluently
• Willing and be ale to attend the education program

Exclusion Criteria:

• Taking medication for diagnosing mental illness
• With complicated or high-risk pregnancies