The Effect of Consumption of Date Fruit and Nipple Stimulation in Late Pregnancy

Labor Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Consumption of Date Fruit and Nipple Stimulation in Late Pregnancy on The First Stage of Labor

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06280911
• Other study ID #: 098
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 10, 2013
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Selcuk University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study was conducted to determine the effect of consumption of date fruit and nipple stimulation on labor. The samples were applied to pregnant women satisfying the research criteria in a state hospital in Istanbul between October 2013 and June 2014.

Description:

The study was designed to be randomly controlled. Block randomization method was used to determine the experimental and control groups. Randomization was done by a biostatistician outside the researcher. 198 pregnant women were randomly assigned to the date fruit, nipple and control groups. From the 37th gestational age to the onset of labor, 6 date fruits were consumed per day by the date fruit group and the nipple stimulation was applied 6 minutes per day for the nipple group. No intervention was made for the control group. For the collection of research data, "Structured Information Form" and "Wijma Birth Expectancy / Experience Scale Version" were used.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 198
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who nulliparous at the 37th gestational age, have singleton pregnancy, have the BMI is less than 25 kg/m2, planning to have a normal vaginal delivery, have vertex presentation, a volunteer to participate in the study, no smoking in pregnancy and have moderate birth fear according to W-DEQ were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who have risk pregnancy (such as preterm labor risk, preeclampsia eclampsia, premature rupture of membranes, placenta previa, gestational diabetes, fetal anomaly and chronic diseases) were excluded in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Augmentation
• Induction
• Labor

Intervention

Other:
• Date Fruit group
Consumption of Date Fruit
• Nipple group
Nipple Stimulation

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children's Diseases Training and Research Hospital	Istanbul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Selcuk University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The spontaneous onset of labor	The spontaneous onset of labor (dichotomous data: yes or no)	From the 37th gestational age to the labor
Primary	Induction and augmentation of labor	Induction and augmentation of labor (dichotomous data: yes or no)	From the 37th gestational age to the labor
Secondary	Mode of delivery	Mode of delivery (dichotomous data: vaginal delivery or caesarean section)	From the 37th gestational age to the birth