A Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture to Reduce Labour Pain
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 303
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Use of Epidural Analgesia
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of manual acupuncture and electro-acupuncture on labour pain.
详细描述
Acupuncture is used in obstetric care in spite of insufficient evidence of its potential to reduce labour pain. The findings so far are contradictory, which may reflect methodological limitations. The present study will take issues into account, such as sufficiently large sample to allow detection of possible differences between study groups; optimal timing of the intervention; controlling for intensity of the treatment; qualified training of persons giving the treatment; biological markers of pain and stress; possible effects on mother and infant; women's experiences such as overall birth experience and memory of pain.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Admission to the labour ward in spontaneous onset of labour
- •Latent or active phase of labour
- •Nulliparity
- •Singleton pregnancy, cephalic presentation
- •Gestation: 37+0 to 41+6 (weeks + days)
- •Expressed need for labour pain relief
- •Swedish speaking (well enough to understand written and oral instructions)
排除标准
- •No pharmacological pain relief within 24 hours prior to inclusion into the study
- •Severe preeclampsia
- •Treatment with oxytocin at the time point of allocation
- •Treatment with anticoagulant
- •Pacemaker
结局指标
主要结局
Use of Epidural Analgesia
时间窗: From start of treatment until birth
Frequecy of epidural analgesia
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Lena B Martensson
PhD RNM Senior Lecturer
University of Skövde