Effects of health literacy education on adaptation to pregnancy, self‐efficacy, fear of childbirth and health literacy in Turkish pregnant women: A randomized, controlled trial.

This research aims to evaluate the effects of health literacy (HL) education on Turkish pregnant women's adaptations to pregnancy, self‐efficacy, fear of childbirth and HL levels. This was a randomised, controlled trial. The research was carried out in the Marmara region of Turkey between July 2018 and April 2019. This research was conducted with three groups including one control (n = 73) and two intervention (n = 109) groups. One of the intervention groups was given antenatal education (AE) for improving HL (HL‐AE) (n = 53), and the other was provided AE (n = 56) only. A Pregnancy Information Form, Prenatal Self‐Evaluation Questionnaire, Fear of Childbirth and The Postpartum Period Scale, General Self‐Efficacy Scale and Turkey Health Literacy Scale‐32 were used for data collection. Results show that adaptation to pregnancy, general self‐efficacy and HL levels significantly improved while fear of childbirth decreased in the group that was provided HL‐AE intervention group. Additional when the pre‐education and post‐education scale scores were compared in the AE group, it was found that there was a significant difference in other scale scores, but not for fear of childbirth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)