فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Happiness is among the factors that promote mental health in mothers withunplanned pregnancy. The present study aimed to determine the impact of attachment skills trainingon happiness among women with unplanned pregnancy.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This clinical trial was conducted on 84 women with unplannedpregnancy referred to three prenatal clinics in Shiraz in 2018. The participants were randomly dividedinto an intervention group and a control group using permutation block. At first, the participants wererequested to sign written informed consent form, demographic information form, and mental healthquestionnaire. Then, they were asked to complete Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and Cranley’sMaternal-Fetal Attachment Scale. The intervention group received attachment training through six90-min sessions, while the control group underwent the hospital’s routine care. The two groups wererequired to fill out the study questionnaires once more after 4 weeks after the intervention. After all,the data were analyzed using Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, independent t-test, and ANOVA.RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the two groups’ pretest and posttest meanscores of happiness (P = 0.0001). The results showed that in the experimental group, pretraining andposttraining period mean scores were 89.64 (7.2) and 93.13 (6.09), respectively; while in the controlgroup, pretraining and posttraining period mean scores were, respectively, 91.69 (9.96) and 91 (8.82).The difference between the two groups was statistically significant. No significant relationship wasobserved between happiness and the couples’ occupations, number of pregnancies, and numberof miscarriages in the two groups (P > 0.05).CONCLUSION: The mean score of happiness increased after the training, being significantly differentfrom that in the control group. Therefore, happiness is a changeable feature that can be promotedamong pregnant women via interventional methods.