Highlights
- Counselling reduces the severity of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
- Counselling is effective for the duration of mild and moderate nausea and vomiting.
- The number of weekly telephone follow-ups of women who have counselling was significantly less.
Objectives
The
aim of this study was to assess the effects of follow-up counselling on the
duration and severity of nausea and vomiting in pregnant women.
Study design
This
study is quasi-experimental and included 62 pregnant women with nausea and
vomiting. The group that received counselling was considered to be the
experimental group, and the group that received a standard outpatient clinic
service was the control group. Data were collected with a demographic data
form, that is, the Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy Instrument and Pregnancy
Unique Quantification of Emesis and Nausea. Significance tests of the
differences between two mean values, the Mann–Whitney U test and survival
analyses were used to test the hypotheses.
Results
In
pregnant women with mild or moderate nausea and vomiting, nausea and vomiting
terminated in a significantly shorter time in the experimental group than in
the control group (p < 0.001), but this difference was not significant for
pregnant women with severe nausea and vomiting (p > 0.05). In addition,
the number of weekly telephone follow-ups in the experimental group was
significantly smaller (p < 0.001).
Conclusion
Counselling
effectively reduced the duration and severity of mild or moderate nausea and
vomiting during pregnancy. However, it did not affect the duration of severe
nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
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Affiliations
- School of Health, University of Nigde, Nigde, Turkey
Correspondence
- Corresponding author. School of Health, Nigde University, Niğde Zübeyde Hanım, Sağlık Yüksekokulu Derbent Yerleşkesi, 51100 Merkez, Nigde, Turkey. Tel.: +90 388 211 28 33
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