Feasibility, Acceptability, and Outcomes of Sterile Water Injection (SWI) in Managing Lower Back Pain among Labouring Women in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana: A Mixed-method Study.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Registration Number
- PACTR202307748580298
- Lead Sponsor
- Charles Darwin University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 54
Inclusion Criteria
Age 18 years and above
- Women at term (between 37 completed weeks and 41 completed weeks)
- Primip
- Singleton pregnancy
- Cephalic presentation
- First-stage labour (spontaneous or induced)
- Back pain assessed by VAS as =7
Exclusion Criteria
- Women whose labour would be considered high risk such as elderly primip (=40years), women with high blood pressure (pre-eclampsia), insulin-dependent diabetic pregnant women, infections at the injection site, and those women with clotting problems.
- Those women whose consent is required to be provided by a spouse for cultural reasons.
- Women of non-English speaking backgrounds, Twi, Ga, Hausa, or Ewe (These are the common Ghanaian languages) where an interpreter is not available.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The proportion of women with low back pain who will consider sterile water injection for its clinical effectiveness
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - VAS Measurement before intervention and after injection at 30, 60, 90 minutes. ;- Proportion of women who report >30% reduction in VAS scores at 30 minutes after SWI administration ;- Proportion of women who report >50% reduction in VAS scores at 30 minutes after SWI administration ;Women’s satisfaction