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Effect of the fetal movement count on maternal–fetal attachment

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Esra Güney

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Department of Midwifery, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey

Correspondence: Esra Güney, Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, İnönü University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author

Tuba Uçar,

Tuba Uçar

Department of Midwifery, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey

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Esra Güney,

Corresponding Author

Esra Güney

[email protected]

Department of Midwifery, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey

Correspondence: Esra Güney, Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, İnönü University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author

Tuba Uçar,

Tuba Uçar

Department of Midwifery, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey

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First published: 17 May 2018

https://doi.org/10.1111/jjns.12214

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Abstract

Aim

This study aimed to determine the effect of fetal movement counting on maternal–fetal attachment.

Methods

This study was a randomized controlled trial, conducted with experimental and control groups, each including 55 pregnant women from six family health centers in the Malatya Province, located in the east of Turkey. The data were collected by using a Personal Information Form and the Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale. Training for fetal movement counting was provided to the experimental group. The pre- and posttraining maternal–fetal attachment levels of the experimental group (fetal movements that were regularly counted for 4 weeks) and the control group (continual routine monitoring) were compared.

Results

In the pretraining pretest, no difference was found between the maternal–fetal attachment scores of the experimental and the control groups, whereas the maternal–fetal attachment score of the experimental group was found to be higher than that of the control group in the post-test that was applied 4 weeks later.

Conclusion

This research indicated that fetal movement counting positively affected maternal–fetal attachment.

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