The effect of an educational intervention based on Ottawa Guideline on nausea and vomiting at first trimester of pregnancy

Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a list of the most common pregnancy problem. The combination of non-drug treatments involves nutrition, lifestyle changes, and alternative medicine to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is paid less attention as a published guidelines. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of an educational intervention based on Ottawa Guideline in nausea and vomiting at first trimester of pregnancy.
This single-blind clinical trial was conducted on 60 pregnant women with nausea and vomiting complication from a selected primary healthcare centers in Mashahd (Iran). The participants were randomly assigned to two groups, an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received the Ottawa training guide (two sessions: general, attention, nutrition, lifestyle, alternative medicine, and acupressure) during two 60-minute sessions and the control group received the usual care. Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DOS-21(, the Rhodes index of nausea and vomiting, and Czech playlists training manual Ottawa were used. The Chi-square tests, Fisher Mann-Whitney U, independent and paired t-test were used for analysis.
There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of nausea (p= 0.002), vomiting (P = 0.007), and retching (P = 0.009) on the fourth weeks after the initial intervention. (p = The Czech playlists training manual Ottawa can be effective in reducing nausea, vomiting in pregnant women.