Evaluation of Continuous Support in Labor
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 600
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Length of labor
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study was to compare labor outcomes in women accompanied by an additional support person (doula group) with outcomes in women who did not have this additional support person (control group).
The current study was designed with the benefits of continuous labor support in mind as well as the need for a cost-effective, affordable program to provide those services for low-income women. Its purpose was to evaluate the effects of continuous labor support provided by a female companion of the pregnant person's choosing who, with the mother, had participated in an educational program to teach her how to provide continuous labor support.
详细描述
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of a female companion in labor who had been chosen by a nulliparous, underinsured, low-income woman and who had received brief training in supportive labor techniques. The objective was to compare labor outcomes, specifically cesarean section rates, in women accompanied by this additional support person (doula group) with outcomes in women who did not have this additional support person (control group).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 45 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Nulliparous (never given birth before)
- •Singleton pregnancy
- •Vertex presentation
- •Low risk pregnancy
- •Has a female friend willing to be a doula
排除标准
- •Placenta previa
- •Abruptio placenta
- •Multiple pregnancy
- •Breech presentation
- •Planned operative delivery
结局指标
主要结局
Length of labor
type of delivery
type and timing of analgesia/anesthesia
次要结局
- Birthweight
- neonatal Apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes after birth