The Effect of Cold Application to the Sacral Area in the Transition Phase of Labor on Labor Comfort:
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 60
- 主要终点
- Cold Application to the Sacral Area on Labor Comfort
研究概览
简要总结
Purpose: Cold application is considered as an effective alternative treatment for labor comfort because of its low side effects and easy availability. This study aims to determine the effect of cold application to the sacral area in the transition phase of labor on labor comfort.
Materials and methods: The study was done as a randomised controlled experimental study. While the women in the experimental group received cold application for 10 minutes every 20 minutes after 8 cm of cervical dilatation, the women in control group received routine care protocol of the unit.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •The inclusion criteria were having a full-term pregnancy (pregnancies between 37th and 42nd weeks),
- •having a single fetus, having a cephalic presentation,
- •fetal weight of 2,5- 4 kg,
- •pregnant women's having normal body mass index and receiving no antenatal trainings,
- •having an 8 cm cervical dilation.
排除标准
- •The women who had any kind of pregnancy complications (placenta previa, preeclampsia,
- •premature rupture of membranes, oligohydramnios and polyhydramnios, presentation disorder,
- •intrauterine growth retardation, intrauterine dead fetus,
- •macrosomia babies, fetal distress, etc.),
- •who had any systemic or neurologic diseases
- •contraction anomalies (hypotonic or hypertonic contractions),
- •who had induced labor,
- •who received narcotic analgesics,
- •who had occiput posterior,
- •who were in the latent and active phases of labor,
- •who had irregular contractions were excluded from the study
结局指标
主要结局
Cold Application to the Sacral Area on Labor Comfort
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Cold Application to the Sacral Area on Labor Comfort
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Emine Yıldırım
Doktor Öğretim Üyesi
Osmaniye Korkut Ata University