SIT group
The session outline for intervention group 1 was as follows: SIT technique was conducted by a female expert psychotherapist (author MF) who had a license in psychology. The psychologist and Perinatologist (author ZP) organized weekly 60-min face-to-face group sessions for a period of 6 weeks. A female assistant (author AF), who was trained in SIT technique before the trial, helped the therapist in the sessions. sessions 1, 3 and 5 as individual face-to-face and sessions 2, 4 and 6 as virtual SIT held on WhatsApp messenger. Each session lasted for 60 min.