An interventional study of painkiller and hypnosis group in Hypnosis, Labor Pain and Virtual Reality, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens. Recruiting at 1 site in France. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-25.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
The latency phase corresponds to the first phase of the first stage of labour, during which the parturient feels regular, rhythmic uterine contractions that are often painful, with or without changes of the cervix. This phase lasts an average of 8 hours for primiparous women, compared with 5 hours for multiparous women, and can last up to twenty hours in total.
Cervical ripening corresponds to the medical induction of regular, painful uterine contractions in order to obtain a favourable cervix for the induction of labour. Cervical ripening is carried out either medically (oral or local prostaglandins) or mechanically (double balloon dilatation) and accounts for 69.2% of labour inductions, which in turn account for 25.8% of births.
At Amiens-Picardie University Hospital, this maturation stage can last from a few hours to 2 days, depending on the service protocol.
What these two stages of childbirth have in common is that they are both painful, with very few analgesic drugs available that can be used without side-effects on the foetus during pregnancy.
In recent years, there has also been a growing demand from parturients for the use of non-medicinal therapies.
It therefore seems essential to provide parturients with as many effective non-drug methods as possible to manage their pain properly.
If virtual reality hypnosis sessions prove to be effective, they will provide better pain management for women in labour, reduce the use of morphine derivatives (with their attendant side-effects, particularly on the foetus), and above all meet the growing demand from women in labour for the most physiological possible support during childbirth.
396 studies on the registry are indexed under Labor Pain; 66 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 142 is above the median of 100 across 326 interventional studies indexed under Labor Pain.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Drug: painkiller
Other: hypnosis group
The control group will receive a painkiller adapted to the service protocol after the fetal heart rate has been recorded.
The hypnosis group will receive a hypnosis session after the fetal heart rate has been recorded. Automated measurement of blood pressure and maternal heart rate will take place during the session in order to objectively assess the impact of the session on the mother. Patients in the hypnosis group will then have access to the virtual reality headset on request throughout the latency or maturation phase, and will also be able to benefit from a painkiller in accordance with the service protocol if they so request.
pain intensity difference between the first analgesic procedure and 30min later
Assessment of PID (pain intensity difference) between the first analgesic procedure and 30min later.
Time frame: 30 minutes
Average consumption of analgesics
Average consumption of analgesics (morphine agonists and other analgesics) during the latency or maturation period.
Time frame: 12 hours
Plan to share: No
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