Effect of Doula in Nulliparas and Multiparas (DINAM)

Nanjing Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Doula

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00755092

NMU-FY2008-416

NJFY-MZ08092

Details and patient eligibility

About

Psychological care during labor is considered as an important supplemental procedure for alleviating delivering stress and pain. Although Doula has been recommending that should be given for parturients, its precise effect on nulliparous and multiparous women is still unknown. The investigators hypothesized that multiparas had experienced the process of labor, but the nulliparas were not, so Doula support would produce different effect on these two population.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy term parturients
• Chinese
• 19-45 years

Exclusion criteria

• Organic dysfunction
• Participants younger than 19 years or older than 45 years
• Those who were not willing to or could not finish the whole study at any time
• Pregnancy-induced hypertension and diabetes mellitus

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Doula for Nulliparous women

Treatment:

Behavioral: Doula

Behavioral: Doula

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Doula for Multiparous women

Treatment:

Behavioral: Doula

Behavioral: Doula