Acupuncture as Pain Relief and Relaxation During Childbirth. A Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 607
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- The need for conventional analgesic in each group.
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of acupuncture for pain relief and relaxation during childbirth.
详细描述
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of acupuncture for pain relief an relaxation during childbirth.
In a controlled study 607 healthy patients in active labor at term are randomly assigned to receive either acupuncture, TENS or traditional analgesia. Pharmacological analgesia is provided on request. The treatment is administered by midwives trained in acupuncture and TENS. The objective parameter of outcome is the need for conventional analgesia in each group. Visual analogue scale assessments are used to evaluate participants perception of pain before, during and after treatment. Questionnaires filled out two months after delivery is used to investigate the patients experience and satisfaction with delivery and analgesia.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy, Danish speaking women with a normal singleton pregnancy giving birth at term 37 - 42 weeks) with a fetus in cephalic presentation.
排除标准
- •Women with medical diseases or complicated pregnancy. Women who has already received conventional analgesia during labor.
结局指标
主要结局
The need for conventional analgesic in each group.
时间窗: during labor
次要结局
- Obstetric outcome: duration of labour, use of oxytocin, incidence of caesarean section, bleeding, apgar score, cord blood pH(from randomization until birth)
- visual analogue scale is used to evaluate subjective effect on pain.(Just before randomization, one hour after randomization and subsequently every two hours until the child was born)
- Questionaries filled out by the parturients to investigate satisfactory with analgesic given.(two months after delivery)