Improving Parental Knowledge: Supplementation of Prematurity Counseling With Written Information

Medical College of Wisconsin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Premature Birth

Treatments: Other: Written information and verbal counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01418950

PRO00010267

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pregnant women who receive study counseling which includes gestational age specific written information in addition to the verbal counseling will have better knowledge of problems and outcomes of prematurity than women who receive standard counseling which consists of only verbal counseling.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking pregnant women who are between 23-34 weeks of gestation
• Who are 18 years and older
• Open to all ethnic groups.
• Admitted in preterm labor to Froedtert and Waukesha Hospitals labor and delivery unit.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women who are known to have infants with congenital anomalies or other associated conditions apart from prematurity that could be a significant factor to the outcome of the baby.
• Pregnant women who have been included in this study and discharged at some point and again admitted for preterm labor will be excluded from the study.
• If a participant delivers before completing the Parent Knowledge Questionnaire, she will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive standard verbal counseling regarding outcome of premature infants

Treatment:

Other: Written information and verbal counseling

Study Group

Experimental group

Description:

Study Group will receive gestational age specific written information prior to receiving standard verbal counseling about outcome of premature infants.

Treatment:

Other: Written information and verbal counseling