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Effects of Digital Vaginal Examination During Labor on Pain and Anxiety Levels

Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:
Effects of Digital Vaginal Examination During Labor on Pain and Anxiety : a Randomised Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Summary

Digital vaginal examination is the most common method for assessing progress of labor and delivery. Considering it is the most common intervention women receive during course of labor, evidence for psychological effects of digital vaginal examination on women is surprisingly sparse. Reducing the number of vaginal examination during labor has been proposed by many authors as benefit of more vaginal examination is unclear. However this is unlikely to happen until more research on the topic demonstrates clear detrimental effects of vaginal examination.

Our study is aimed at investigating association of vaginal examination with psychological distress of women during labor. Anxiety during labor is associated with longer labor duration, increased perception of pain, problems with newborn attachment, and increased rates of postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. In this study, women were assigned to either digital vaginal examination or transperineal ultrasound assessment groups were compared to each other in a randomised controlled setting.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT02599610
Study type Interventional
Source Ankara University
Contact Erkan Kalafat, MD
Phone 05334736998
Email ekalafat@ankara.edu.tr
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date October 2015
Completion date March 2016
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