This study aimed at to examine the effects of prenatal care group art therapy programs on maternal
identity and maternal-fetal attachment. To this end, 18 pregnant woman were finally recruited from G city
in Gyeonggi-do, and randomly and evenly assigned into the test group and the control group. The program
for the test group was performed with a total of 14 sessions for 80 minutes once or twice in a week from
November 2014 January 2015. In addition to the preliminary and follow-up tests, maternal identity,
maternal-fetal attachment, and the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test were examined for all subjects in both groups.
The results of this study are as follows. First, four sub-factors of the performed to analyze the subjects'
maternal identity before and after the program were statistically significant results for the test group.
However, the control group did not have any statistically significant difference. Secondly, five sub-factors of
the measuring maternal-fetal attachment before and after the program were statistically significant, whereas
the control group did not show any meaningful difference. Therefore, it can be concluded that this study
showed that prenatal care group art therapy programs could help pregnant women to visualize their
emotions and experiences during the pregnancy period and to develop interactions with their unborn
children; he study also positively affected maternal identity and maternal-fetal attachment.