Education and Social Media Versus Non-Indicated Caesarean Section Rate in Egypt

Completed

• Conditions: Complications; Cesarean Section
• Interventions: Behavioral: Observation

• Registration Number: NCT02785094
• Lead Sponsor: Talkha Central Hospital

Brief Summary

This study focus on measuring effect of Egyptian Primigravidas' education level and accessibility to social media on rate of maternal request option offered for non-indicated primary caesarean section.

Detailed Description

A caesarean section (CS) is a life-saving surgical procedure when certain complications arise during pregnancy and labour. However, it is a major surgery and is associated with immediate maternal and perinatal risks and may have implications for future pregnancies as well as long-term effects that are still being investigated. The use of CS has increased dramatically worldwide in the last decades particularly in middle- and high-income countries, and some studies showing a link between increasing CS rates and poorer outcomes, and reasons for this increase are multifactorial and not well-understood.

In Egypt the CS rate according to WHO (World Health Organization),Health report (2010) is 27.6 %. Egypt also is considered to be the highest African country in CS rate (51.8 %), in which CS rate rose from 4.6 % to 51.8 % over the 24 year period (1990-2014), and more than half of all women give birth by CS in Egypt without much difference between urban and rural areas.

Slightly more than half of the live births in the five-year period before 2014 Egypt Demographic and Health survey were by CS, and 60 % of primigravidas delivered by CS.

Updated indications of primary CS including option of maternal request as one of these indications were reported in both RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) Press report (2001) and RCOG CS various guidelines.

Recently, the Egyptian public opinion deviated to obstetricians' desire for self financial benefits to be the major cause of increasing Egypt CS rates; depending on newspaper articles and social media talks.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-05-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-05-24
• Study First Posted: 2016-05-27
• Study Start: 2016-06
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Primary Completion: 2016-09
• Study Completion: 2016-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 2016-09-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 1400

Inclusion Criteria

• Full term with gestational age (G.A) more than or equal 39 weeks.
• Acceptance to answer study short questionnaire to determine eligible participants for each cohort.

Exclusion Criteria

• Multiparity.
• History of previous Caesarean Section/s.
• Any Mental or Physical disabilities.
• Disapproval for answering a predefined short questionnaire related to study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
A	Observation	Group of High Education level
D	Observation	Group has not Accessibility to Social Media
B	Observation	Group of Low/Non Education level
C	Observation	Group has Accessibility to Social Media

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Primigravidas who request a Non-Indicated CS	Up to 2 weeks	Number of Primigravidas who request a Non-Indicated CS.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Primigravidas who refused to have a trial of IOL (Induction of Labour), as an index for deviated intention to request a Non-Indicated CS	Up to 24 hours	Number of Primigravidas who refused to have a trial of IOL (Induction of Labour), as an index for deviated intention to request a Non-Indicated CS.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Talkha Central Hospital; 🇪🇬 Mansoura, Al-Dakahliya, Egypt