To determine the efficacy of the use of multimedia patient education technology in the antenatal education process, particularly regarding the use of epidural anaesthesia in labour, in primigravida women who are planning on having a normal vaginal delivery.

Epworth Foundation - Foot and Ankle Research Fund0 sites200 target enrollmentJuly 11, 2011

Overview

Phase: N/A
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Pain during labour in primigravida women planning to have a normal vaginal delivery.
Sponsor: Epworth Foundation - Foot and Ankle Research Fund
Enrollment: 200
Status: Not Yet Recruiting
Last Updated: 6 years ago

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

July 11, 2011

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

Female

Sponsor

Epworth Foundation - Foot and Ankle Research Fund

•Patients must be primigravida women who are planning on having a normal vaginal delivery. Patients must be aged between 20 and 40 years, have no past history of epidural or spinal anaesthesia, english must be their first language, have achieved grade 11 or greater secondary education and be able to read a plain English patient information consent form. Patients also need to be attending the antenatal education classes conducted by Ms Cathryn Curtin at the Epworth Freemasons Maternity Hospital.

•Exclusion criteria are maternal age less than 20 or greater than 40 years, English not primary language, poor eyesight and/or hearing, previous epidural or spinal anaesthesia and planned caesarean section.