Individual Choice of Delivery Mode
- Conditions
- Delivery Mode
- Interventions
- Other: Online-based questionnaire
- Registration Number
- NCT03131830
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen
- Brief Summary
The primary aim of the study is to investigate personal attitudes regarding mode of delivery among both medical health care professionals and non-professionals. The investigators are also investigating whether providing detailed information that might influence one's decision regarding mode of delivery (such as education on pelvic floor disorders or advantages or disadvantages of epidural anaesthesia) will change participants´ opinion how to determine their preferred mode of delivery.
- Detailed Description
The choice of delivery mode is an individual decision that is affected by personal opinions and feelings about what might be best for one's own body and child. Increasing awareness about the risks of vaginal delivery has led to an increasing rate of cesearean delivery on maternal request.
The primary aim of the study is to investigate personal attitudes regarding mode of delivery among both medical health care professionals and non-professionals. The investigators are also investigating whether providing detailed information that might influence one's decision regarding mode of delivery (such as education on pelvic floor disorders or advantages or disadvantages of epidural anaesthesia) will change participants´ opinion how to determine their preferred mode of delivery.
A secondary aim of the survey is to gather information about personal attitudes regarding:
* epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during delivery
* systems of risk stratification
* postnatal recovery exercises The data will be acquired with an online questionnaire designed for this study. There will be two groups in this study. The first group ("medical professionals") consists of gynecologists with either subspecialization (urogynecology , fetal and maternal medicine, obstetrics, other) and other non-OB/GYN health care providers and medical staff, regardless whether they are nurses, medical assistants, physicians, physiotherapists, midwifes, administration staff. The group of "non-professionals" consists of women who are currently pregnant, and are not healthcare professionals.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2605
- able to fill out a questionnaire
- minor people
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Participants of the 9th German Urogynecological Congress Online-based questionnaire Online-based questionnaire Staff of the University Clinic of Tuebingen Online-based questionnaire Online-based questionnaire All members of the German Society of Obsetrics and Gynecology Online-based questionnaire Online-based questionnaire Pregnant women from Tübingen and Heidelberg Online-based questionnaire Online-based questionnaire
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Delivery mode 3 months Choice of delivery mode
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Women's Hospital
🇩🇪Tübingen, Germany