Different Positions During Childbirth

Childbirth Process Clinical Trial

Official title:

Application the Recommended Positions of the World Health Organization During Normal Childbirth and Its Effect on Maternal and Labor Outcomes

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04641572
• Other study ID #: Woman's health Hospital
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Woman's Health University Hospital, Egypt
• Contact: Howieda Fouly, PhD
• Phone: 0538472739
• Email: hoida_elfouly[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To encourage the application the recommended positions of the World Health Organization during normal childbirth and its effect on maternal and labor outcomes

Description:

To assess the effects of adopting upright positions (walking, sitting, standing) during first stage of labor.

To measure the effect of different individual positions on maternal-fetal outcomes.

To determine which position was more comfortable for women.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged > 18 years old with normal pregnancy, primiparas and multi-paras labor cases.

Exclusion Criteria:

• All high-risk associated factors (Hypertension- DM, Heart disease- renal disease) will be excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Childbirth Process

Intervention

Other:
• Choose comfortable position
Standing or walking, Squatting, Sitting, Hands /knees, and Kneeling, positions will be taken by the participant during labor.Then the researcher will register the time ( minutes/hours) will be taken and which that will be more preferable by the participant

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Woman Health Hospital	Asyut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Woman's Health University Hospital, Egypt

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The maternal outcome.	measure labor pain score in each position on pain scale	Within labor process
Primary	Newborn outcome	Measure the APGAR score of the newborn related to each position	At 1 minute and 5 minutes after delivery.
Secondary	-Increase self-direction of participants through choosing the preferable position	Register the most preferable positions during childbirth process	Within labor process
Secondary	Improve women's satisfaction of childbirth experience	measure woman's satisfaction after application of the upright position	After childbirth process.