Maternal Counseling for Preterm Deliveries, Assessing an Effective Method of Counseling
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 92
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Patient knowledge
研究概览
简要总结
Providing verbal counseling supplemented with both written and pictorial information then verbal counseling alone is a more effective method of counseling parents with threatened preterm delivery
详细描述
Progress in the frontiers of neonatology has continually pushed back the limit of viability and significantly improved the survival of extremely preterm infants. An important component of medical management before a preterm delivery is counseling the parents about probabilities of survival and long term complications.
Hypothesis
Preterm counseling is more effective when parents receive verbal counseling supplemented with written and pictorial information then verbal counseling alone.
Methodology: There will be two groups of study (verbal, pictorial and written vs verbal alone). All patients admitted to the L and D department of Stroger hospital between 23 to 34 weeks of gestation with threatened premature delivery will be enrolled in the study. They will be randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups. After counseling, parents will be asked to complete a 32 point questionnaire to check their knowledge of outcomes of prematurity.
To reach statistically significant results, the investigators will need 40 patients in each group. The study will be done over a period of one year
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Pregnant women between 23 to 34 weeks gestation assessed by obstetrician to need counseling
排除标准
- •Pregnancies with known life threatening defects considered as non compatible with life.
- •Mothers previously admitted and counseled will also be excluded
研究组 & 干预措施
Verbal counseling
Parents with threatened delivery will receive verbal counseling only
干预措施: Verbal counseling (Other)
Verbal, pictorial, written counseling
Parents with threatened delivery will receive verbal counseling supplemented with pictorial and written information
干预措施: Verbal, pictorial, written counseling (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Patient knowledge
时间窗: one year
After counseling, patient will answer a 32 point questionnaire and this will be compared across the two groups to see there is any statistical difference between the two groups using SPSS
次要结局
- Maternal anxiety level(one year)
研究者
Mopelola Akintorin
MD
Cook County Health