Pain Relief Satisfaction With New Educational Materials

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction

Interventions: Other: Access to routine information
Other: Access to website

Registration Number: NCT03698773

Lead Sponsor: University of New Mexico

Brief Summary: This study compares patient satisfaction after labor and delivery with access to either the default educational materials available, or to a table computer set to display an educational website, thepainlesspush.com.

Detailed Description: This is a prospective randomized controlled study. The investigators hypothesize that parturients with access to the website will exhibit greater satisfaction with labor and delivery pain control.

Potential participants will be recruited from the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) Labor \& Delivery floor. Patients will be enrolled following an oral consent process. They will be randomized into either control group or intervention group. Control group participants will have their standard of care visit with an anesthesiologist and routine hospital pain-relief information. Intervention group participants will have their standard of care visit with an anesthesiologist, plus one hour in which to view the patient education website thepainlesspush.com, on an iPad provided by the Anesthesiology department for this purpose. After their delivery and transfer to the mother/baby unit, participants will complete a satisfaction survey brought to them by a study team member. Participants will complete the survey following their delivery and prior to discharge. The primary team will notify us with expected discharge in which we will retrieve the survey from them in their room and answer any last questions. Their active participation in the study will be complete at this time. After a participant completes the satisfaction survey, research team members will collect demographic information and relevant obstetric/medical history information from the electronic medical record.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: Female

Target Recruitment: 106

Inclusion Criteria

All English- or Spanish-speaking patients who are admitted to UNMH Labor and Delivery for planned progression to active labor.

Exclusion Criteria

Age under 18 years
Patients unable to provide consent for medical procedures
Patients who do not speak either English or Spanish

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Baseline Group	Access to routine information	Access to existing educational materials about labor/delivery pain relief options, as well as an opportunity to ask physicians, nurses, and other relevant personnel for more information.
Website Group	Access to website	Access to a tablet computer set to display an educational website (thepainlesspush.com) with information about labor/delivery pain relief options, as well as an opportunity to ask physicians, nurses, and other relevant personnel for more information.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient Satisfaction With Pain Control in Labor	Following delivery and prior to discharge, up to two days	Satisfaction as measured by agreement with Likert scale questionnaire item "I was satisfied with my choice for pain control in labor" where 1 = strongly disagree, 3 = neither agree nor disagree, and 5 = strongly agree. High scores indicate high satisfaction.

Secondary Outcome Measures