An interventional study of doula training in Pregnancy and Delivery, Obstetric, sponsored by Saint Peters University Hospital. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 16 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2005-08-23.
Sponsored by Saint Peters University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
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.
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).
Saint Peters University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Length of labor
type of delivery
type and timing of analgesia/anesthesia
Birthweight
neonatal Apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes after birth
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