Do Peanut Shaped Birthing Balls Reduce the Length of Labor in Patients With Epidural Analgesia?

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Labor

Treatments: Other: peanut shaped birthing ball

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02539563

IRB00033103

Details and patient eligibility

About

Labor patients who meet inclusion and exclusion criteria will be consented to be participate in this study to determine if the use of a peanut shaped birthing ball reduces the length of labor and reduces the incidence of cesarean section. Subjects will be randomized at the time of consent to either use the birthing ball or not use the birthing ball from the time of labor analgesia until complete cervical dilation.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• nulliparous
• >/= 18 years of age
• not allergic to medications used for labor analgesia
• no contraindications to labor analgesia
• ASA I-II
• EGA >/= 37 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• under age 18
• Spanish speaking only
• multiparous
• EGA <37 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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101 participants in 2 patient groups

peanut ball

Active Comparator group

Description:

the peanut shaped birthing ball after labor analgesia will be utilized

Treatment:

Other: peanut shaped birthing ball

no peanut ball

No Intervention group

Description:

the peanut shaped birthing ball will not be utilized during labor