The Effects of Video-Based and Practical Newborn Bathing Education Provided to Primiparous Pregnant Women During the Third Trimester on Knowledge, Anxiety, and Bonding During the First Bath: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Inclusion Criteria:

• Can speak and understand Turkish,

• 18 years of age or older,

• Literate,

• Primiparous,

• In the third trimester of pregnancy,

• A singleton pregnancy,

• No psychiatric illness,

• Who have not received any training on newborn bathing before,

• Her baby was not diagnosed with a fetal anomaly,

• With a smartphone and internet,

• Residing in the province of Kahramanmaras and

• Who agreed to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• Preterm labor (<37 weeks gestation),

• Stillbirth,

• The baby needs intensive care or is hospitalized,

• The baby has a low birth weight (<2500 grams),

• The one whose baby's first bath was given by someone else,

• A newborn bathing program was organized at the pregnancy school.

• Wishing to leave at any stage of the study.