Different Positions During Childbirth

Woman's Health University Hospital, Egypt

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Childbirth Process

Treatments: Other: Choose comfortable position

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04641572

Woman's health Hospital

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Supine position

No Intervention group

Description:

group A ( control ) will follow the hospital routine positions either supine or lateral during labor

Upright position

Experimental group

Description:

Group B (intervention) will follow the Standing or walking, Squatting, Sitting, Hands /knees, and Kneeling, positions. Then the researcher will register the time ( minutes/hours) that will be taken and which will be more preferable by the participant.

Treatment:

Other: Choose comfortable position