None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether the perception of pain is affected by the way women are questioned after their caesarean birth
Interventions
On the postoperative anaesthetic review round within 12-72 hours of the surgery, all Women allocated to open questioning will be asked how they are feeling followed within 5 minutes by the closed question of whether they are comfortable. If they have not already that they have pain, they will then immediately be asked whether they have pain or not and how severe is their pain. This will be measured using a ten point Verbal Numerical Rating Score (VNRS) with zero being no pain while 10 is the wor
On the postoperative anaesthetic review round within 12-72 hours of the surgery, all Women allocated to open questioning will be asked how they are feeling followed within 5 minutes by the closed question of whether they are comfortable. If they have not already that they have pain, they will then immediately be asked whether they have pain or not and how severe is their pain. This will be measured using a ten point Verbal Numerical Rating Score (VNRS) with zero being no pain while 10 is the worst pain imaginable. Those women allocated to closed questioning will be asked whether they are in pain and to score the pain first prior to then being asked (within 5 minutes) how they are feeling.
Sponsors
Women's and Children's Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
within 72 hour of their caesarean section
Exclusion criteria
women requiring a translator and those with intellectual impairment
Outcome results
None listed