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Assignment Effect of Psychoeducation

   

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Running head: ARTICLE 3 ASSIGNMENTArticle 3 assignmentName of the assignment:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1ARTICLE 3 ASSIGNMENTAnswer 1: The RCT by Toohill et al. (2014) aimed to evaluate the effect of psychoeducationintervention by midwives in reducing childbirth fear in pregnant women. As childbirth fear hasbeen associated with adverse maternal outcomes like poor post partum mental health and highrate of cesarean, focusing on effective antennal intervention to reduce fear levels is importance.Hence, this research is significant. For conducting the research, participants were selected bymeans of multisite randomized controlled trial. Stratification was done by hospital site andallocation to groups. The uniqueness of RCT study is that except intervention, no otherconditions should differ in treatment and control group. The outcomes of the trial in both groupis then compared to estimate treatment effect with confidence interval and P value (Bland andAltman 2011). However, in this study, it is not clear whether groups were similar at the start ofthe trial or not. This can be said because demographic, obstetric detail and birth preference werecollected, however it does gives idea about any considerations made to keep groups similar at thestart of the trial. In the end, the result findings also showed difference in education andhousehold income for participants. However, baseline characteristics of participants have beenstudied (Toohill et al. 2014). Answer 2The validity of the research finding in clinical trial is understood by the method by whichthe data is analyzed. Calculating the confidence interval and P value is one of the effectivestatistical method to find out how precisely the treat effect was analyzed (Stewart, Dahm andScales 2011). In the research by Toohill et al. (2014), psychoeducation was the main interventionand primary outcome of the research was reduction in childbirth fear. Secondary outcome
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