Labor Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Doula, Psychological care, Labor analgesia
Brief summary
Psychological care during labor is considered as an important supplemental procedure for alleviating delivering stress and pain. Although Doula has been recommending that should be given for parturients, its precise effect on nulliparous and multiparous women is still unknown. The investigators hypothesized that multiparas had experienced the process of labor, but the nulliparas were not, so Doula support would produce different effect on these two population.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDoula
Doula support for nulliparous women from the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Sponsors
Nanjing Medical University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE (Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
19 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Healthy term parturients * Chinese * 19-45 years
Exclusion criteria
* Organic dysfunction * Participants younger than 19 years or older than 45 years * Those who were not willing to or could not finish the whole study at any time * Pregnancy-induced hypertension and diabetes mellitus
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| VAS pain intensity | From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Blood levels of corticosteroid | 10 min prior to Doula, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120 min after Doula support and at the end of the delivery |
| Vital signs | From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery |
| Adverse events | From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery |
| Ramsey sedative scale | From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery |
| Cesarean rate | During the whole period of laboring |
| Overall feeling of satisfaction of analgesia | From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of the labor |
| Infant outcomes | The time of delivery to 1 h after delivery |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed