Effect of acupressuer on labor pai
- Conditions
- labor pain.
- Registration Number
- IRCT2013112415526N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for research, Hormozgan university of medical sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 250
The inclusion criteria: pregnant women with gestational age of 37-42 weeks with cephalic presentation and 4-5 cm cervical dilatation in active phase of spontaneous onset of labor; singleton pregnancy, with no history of medical disease, history of infertility, previous pelvic surgery, cesarean section; lack of any problem during present gestation; rupture of membranes over 6 hours; presence of meconium in the amniotic fluid; inappropriate pelvic; taking narcotic within the past 8 hours; over 8 cm cervical dilatation, and any fetal distress. If a subject requires undergoing caesarean section or needing for labor augmentation with oxytocin, or don’t like to continue, will exclude from the study.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain relife. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Then various intervals after the intervention (30 minutes after intervention, 1 h after treatment and every hour until delivery),. Method of measurement: Visual analog scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method enght of labor. Timepoint: first & second stage of labor. Method of measurement: minute.
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