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Status unknownNCT03381495Updated Jul 13, 2018

The Association Between Epidural Labor Analgesia and Pregnancy Outcomes

An interventional study of Ropivacaine Hydrochloride, Sufentanil in Labor Pain, Pregnancy Outcomes and Psychological Disorder, sponsored by Deng Dongrui. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 15 Years to 50 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-07-13.

Sponsored by Deng Dongrui · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
15 Years to 50 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Labor analgesia can alleviate intrapartum pain, in the importance of the delivery is very obvious.But some researches think labor analgesia may affect the progress of labor, increase the cesarean section rate.This research adopts the epidural anesthesia to study labor analgesia effects on delivery outcomes and long-term emotional and psychological effects on the mothers. Besides, we also want to study the effect of exercise during pregnancy on the mode of delivery.

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Conditions studied

  • Labor Pain
  • Pregnancy Outcomes
  • Psychological Disorder

Keywords

  • Epidural Labor Analgesia
  • length of labor stage
  • fetal outcomes
  • maternal outcomes
  • postpartum depression
  • exercise
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In context

Labor Pain

423 studies on the registry are indexed under Labor Pain; 74 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 100 across 347 interventional studies indexed under Labor Pain.

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Lead sponsor

Deng Dongrui is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
15 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

healthy and full term pregnant women

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

the pregnant women with complications

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Epidural analgesia during labor

    The epidural analgesia technique was used to maintain analgesia for parturients who request labor analgesia.First, we injected a test dose of 5ml 1% lidocaine . If not adverse effects were observed 10 minutes after the test dose, the parturient then received a bolus injection of an initial dose of 8-10 ml mixed liquids of 0.075% ropivacaine and 0.2ug/ml sufentanil citrate. We then connected the epidural catheter with a patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCA) pump, which provided patients the same mixed solution at 8-10ml/h until the delivery of neonates.

    Drug: Ropivacaine Hydrochloride, Sufentanil

  • No intervention
    Non-epidural analgesia during labor

    Women who refused epidural labor analgesia were included in the non-epidural analgesia group, and they don't receive epidural analgesia during labor

Interventions

  • DrugRopivacaine Hydrochloride, Sufentanil

    Drug pages: Ropivacaine · Sufentanil

    In this research one group will receive epidural analgesia(Ropivacaine Hydrochloride, Sufentanil), data will be collected and analyzed between this group and non-epidural analgesia group.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Labor duration

    Duration of three stages of labor.

    Time frame: At the end of the delivery

Secondary outcomes

  1. 1 minute Apgar index

    The index indicates the infant s' conditions, including heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, color. Each characteristic is given an individual score; two points for each of the five categories if all is completely well; then all scores are totaled. The score is from 0 to 10.

    Time frame: 1 minute after the infant is born

  2. 5 minute Apgar index

    The index indicates the infant s' conditions, including heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, color. Each characteristic is given an individual score; two points for each of the five categories if all is completely well; then all scores are totaled. The score is from 0 to 10.

    Time frame: 5 minutes after the infant is born

  3. Visual Analogue Scores(VAS)

    VAS is the most common pain scale for quantification. The score is from 0 to 10. The score is higher, the patient will be more painful. That will indicate if the analgesia is effective.

    Time frame: 5min before analgesia;5min,15min, 30min,60min after analgesia; at the time of latent phase, active phase, full dilation of the cervix, crowning of head, and laceration repair.

  4. Modified Bromage scores

    The modified Bromage score is the most frequently used measure of motor block. The scores is from 0 to 3. In this scale, the intensity of motor block is assessed by the patient's ability to move their lower extremities (0: no motor paralysis; 1: inability to raise extended leg, but able to move knee and foot; 2: inability to raise extended leg and to move knee, but able to move foot; 3: inability to raise extended leg or to move knee and foot). That will indicate if the analgesia block the patient motor too much.

    Time frame: 5min before analgesia;5min,15min, 30min,60min after analgesia; at the time of latent phase, active phase, full dilation of the cervix, crowning of head, and laceration repair.

  5. Postpartum depression

    Assess the risk of postpartum depression among all participants using EPDS,HAMA.

    Time frame: 3 days after delivery,6 weeks after delivery, 3 months after delivery, 6 months after delivery, 1 year after delivery.

  6. The mode of delivery

    Including spontaneous vaginal delivery, vacuum- and forceps-assisted delivery, cesarean delivery.

    Time frame: At the end of delivery

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Zha Y, Gong X, Yang C, Deng D, Feng L, Luo A, Wan L, Qiao F, Zeng W, Chen S, Wu Y, Han D, Liu H. Epidural analgesia during labor and its optimal initiation time-points: A real-world study on 400 Chinese nulliparas. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Mar 5;100(9):e24923. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000024923. PubMed 33655955 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 13, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03381495
Lead sponsor
Deng Dongrui
Responsible party
Deng Dongrui (professor,chief doctor, Tongji Hospital) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Dec 22, 2017
Start date
May 16, 2018
Primary completion
Sep 1, 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 13, 2018

Study contacts

Xun Gong
Contact
gongxun4019@163.com
+8613886174675

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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