Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach that pays special attention to the language of change, adopts a collaborative, goal-oriented communication style and aims to strengthen personal motivation and commitment to this change, revealing and discovering the reasons for the change in one's own, in an atmosphere of acceptance and empathy.

No interventions were made for those in the control group other than routine hospital practices.

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative speaking style to strengthen one's own motivation and commitment to change. Motivational interviewing is not a technique but a fundamental therapeutic style that does not try to make people change their behavior against their will. Proven to be effective in many areas of healthcare, motivational interviewing is widely used to help people resolve their indecision about change, explore their concerns, and set their own goals. The purpose of the motivational interviews conducted in the study is to increase the belief in normal and natural birth by enabling pregnant women to understand the factors that affect their low belief in normal birth, to take action for change and to believe in change, and to minimize the practices that cause medicalization of birth such as cesarean section by reducing medical birth beliefs.

It was developed to evaluate the beliefs and tendencies of pregnant women towards normal birth. The scale is a five-point Likert type and is scored as I completely agree (5), agree (4), undecided (3), disagree (2), strongly disagree (1). A minimum of 24 and a maximum of 120 points can be obtained from the scale. If the total score from the scale is between 24 and 56, low, between 57 and 88, moderate, and between 89 and 120, high-level beliefs and tendency towards normal birth are in question. As the average score obtained from the scale increases, the beliefs and tendencies of pregnant women about normal birth increase.

While one of the sub-dimensions of the scale used to evaluate the basic belief levels of women about childbirth evaluates birth as a natural process, the other sub-dimension considers birth as a medical/medical process. The scale consists of 11 items in total, including 5 items (items 3, 5, 7, 8, and 11) for the belief in the natural process of birth and 6 items (items 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 10) for the belief in the medical/medical process. consists of. The scale score is obtained by dividing the total score of the items belonging to each sub-dimension by the number of items belonging to that sub-dimension. The group with a high numerical value in the arithmetic mean result constitutes the birth belief of the woman. In this Likert-type scale, each item is scored between 1 and 5 scales. The option "strongly disagree" receives 1 point, while the option "strongly agree" receives 5 points.