An interventional study of Verbal counseling and Verbal, pictorial, written counseling in Pregnancy Preterm and Counseling, sponsored by Cook County Health. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-11-06.
Sponsored by Cook County Health · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
Providing verbal counseling supplemented with both written and pictorial information then verbal counseling alone is a more effective method of counseling parents with threatened preterm delivery
Progress in the frontiers of neonatology has continually pushed back the limit of viability and significantly improved the survival of extremely preterm infants. An important component of medical management before a preterm delivery is counseling the parents about probabilities of survival and long term complications.
Hypothesis: Preterm counseling is more effective when parents receive verbal counseling supplemented with written and pictorial information then verbal counseling alone.
Methodology: There will be two groups of study (verbal, pictorial and written vs verbal alone). All patients admitted to the L and D department of Stroger hospital between 23 to 34 weeks of gestation with threatened premature delivery will be enrolled in the study. They will be randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups. After counseling, parents will be asked to complete a 32 point questionnaire to check their knowledge of outcomes of prematurity.
To reach statistically significant results, the investigators will need 40 patients in each group. The study will be done over a period of one year
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Exclusion Criteria:
Parents with threatened delivery will receive verbal counseling only
Other: Verbal counseling
Parents with threatened delivery will receive verbal counseling supplemented with pictorial and written information
Other: Verbal, pictorial, written counseling
Verbal counseling done by physician
verbal counseling in addition to gestational age specific written information and pictures will be given to parents
Patient knowledge
After counseling, patient will answer a 32 point questionnaire and this will be compared across the two groups to see there is any statistical difference between the two groups using SPSS
Time frame: one year
Maternal anxiety level
Pre and post counseling administration of 6 item State and Trait anxiety inventory, SPSS software will be used to compute statistical significance
Time frame: one year
Plan to share: Undecided
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