An interventional study of Doula and Doula in Labor Pain, sponsored by Nanjing Medical University. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 19 Years to 45 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2009-02-11.
Sponsored by Nanjing Medical University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
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.
396 studies on the registry are indexed under Labor Pain; 66 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 150 is above the median of 100 across 326 interventional studies indexed under Labor Pain.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Doula for Nulliparous women
Behavioral: Doula
Doula for Multiparous women
Behavioral: Doula
Doula support for nulliparous women from the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Doula support for multiparous women from the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
VAS pain intensity
Time frame: From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Ramsey sedative scale
Time frame: From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Blood levels of corticosteroid
Time frame: 10 min prior to Doula, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120 min after Doula support and at the end of the delivery
Vital signs
Time frame: From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Adverse events
Time frame: From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of delivery
Infant outcomes
Time frame: The time of delivery to 1 h after delivery
Cesarean rate
Time frame: During the whole period of laboring
Overall feeling of satisfaction of analgesia
Time frame: From the beginning of regular contraction of uterus to the end of the labor
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