Effect of the Practice of Guided Imagery on the Perceived Stress Level in High-Risk Pregnancies-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Effect of the Practice of Guided Imagery on the Perceived Stress Level in High-Risk Pregnancies

Published:2023-08-05 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2459-1459
Container-title:Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences
language:en
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Author:

ALP DAL Nursel¹^ORCID,BEYDAĞ Kerime Derya²^ORCID,DOĞAN Aysel³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. MUNZUR UNIVERSITY

2. İSTANBUL GEDİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ

3. TOROS UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Objective: This research was conducted to identify the effect of the practice of Guided Imagery on the perceived stress level in high-risk pregnancies. Methods: The study was designed as a prospective, randomized, and single-blind study. The research was performed with the participation of a total of 128 women (64 in the experimental group, 64 in the control group) who had high-risk pregnancies between February-May, 2021. The data were evaluated with the Perceived Stress Scale. Results: The experimental group obtained a lower mean of post-test scores (26.36±5.96) from the Perceived Stress Scale than the control group (30.48±3.93), and this difference was statistically significant (p

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Publisher

Marmara University

Subject

General Materials Science

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