Overview
This study evaluated the long-term effects of an online mindfulness-based program on the psychological distress and mother-infant bonding of women
Description
The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of an online mindfulness program in reducing women's perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and in enhancing mindfulness and mother-infant bonding compared to a control group. The investigators hypothesize that the use of an online mindfulness program or an eight-week mindfulness program by the two experimental groups will lead to improved mood symptoms and mother-infant bonding compared with the control group.
A randomized controlled trial comparing three groups of healthy, singleton pregnant women was conducted using the Random Allocation Software (Saghaei, 2004). We used G-Power 3.1.9 for Windows to analyze the minimum effect size that would be statistically significant with an 80% probability, using an alpha error probability of 0.05 in the "ANOVA: Repeated measures, between factors" option. We inputted 3 for the number of groups, 4 for the number of measurements, 0.5 for the correlation between repeated measures, and factored in a 20% attrition rate. There are 41 women in each group.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects were at the age over 18
- Could speak and read Chinese fluently
- Willing and be ale to attend the education program
Exclusion Criteria:
- Taking medication for diagnosing mental illness
- With complicated or high-risk pregnancies