A Hope-Fostering Counseling Program to Promote Psychological Well-being Among Post-Abortion Primigravida Mothers: A Pilot Intervention Development and Feasibility Study

The Effect of a Hope-Fostering Counseling Program on Psychological Well-Being Among Post-Abortion Primigravida Mothers.

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of a hope-fostering counseling program among post-abortion primigravida mothers. The counseling program is composed of 6 counseling sessions based on individualized discussion. The program's content was built on Snyder's hope theory.

This was a quasi-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The researcher assessed the participants' psychological well-being using the Arabic version of the Ryff Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (PWB-18) and assessed their hope level using the Arabic version of the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS) three times across three sittings: at recruitment, after their first session, and at the end of the sixth session.

The counseling program was provided by a registered midwife who was qualified through a basic counseling course. Three sessions, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th sessions, were provided for the mothers at the midwife clinic in the selected healthcare centers, and three sessions were a phone calling module with the mothers.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of missed or incomplete abortion for the first time with a low-risk pregnancy.
• Proficiency in Arabic
• A baseline ADHS score below 21 or a baseline PWB-18 score below 36 is required.
• Willingness to participate and share personal experiences.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis with various types of abortion.
• Mothers deemed mentally incompetent as documented in patient records.