The Effects of Video-Based and Practical Newborn Bathing Education Provided to Primiparous Pregnant Women During the Third Trimester on Knowledge, Anxiety, and Bonding During the First Bath: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effects of Video-Based and Practical Newborn Bathing Education Provided to Primiparous Pregnant Women During the Third Trimester on Knowledge, Anxiety, and Bonding During the First Bath: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental research design with pretest, posttest control group.

This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental research design with pretest, posttest control group.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Can speak and understand Turkish,
• 18 years of age or older,
• Literate,
• Primiparous,
• In the third trimester of pregnancy,
• A singleton pregnancy,
• No psychiatric illness,
• Who have not received any training on newborn bathing before,
• Her baby was not diagnosed with a fetal anomaly,
• With a smartphone and internet,
• Residing in the province of Kahramanmaras and
• Who agreed to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• Preterm labor (<37 weeks gestation),
• Stillbirth,
• The baby needs intensive care or is hospitalized,
• The baby has a low birth weight (<2500 grams),
• The one whose baby's first bath was given by someone else,
• A newborn bathing program was organized at the pregnancy school.
• Wishing to leave at any stage of the study.