Individual Choice of Delivery Mode

U

University Hospital Tuebingen

Status

Completed

Conditions

Delivery Mode

Treatments

Other: Online-based questionnaire

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03131830

DECISION

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of the study is to investigate personal attitudes regarding mode of delivery among both medical health care professionals and non-professionals. The investigators are also investigating whether providing detailed information that might influence one's decision regarding mode of delivery (such as education on pelvic floor disorders or advantages or disadvantages of epidural anaesthesia) will change participants´ opinion how to determine their preferred mode of delivery.

Full description

The choice of delivery mode is an individual decision that is affected by personal opinions and feelings about what might be best for one's own body and child. Increasing awareness about the risks of vaginal delivery has led to an increasing rate of cesearean delivery on maternal request.

The primary aim of the study is to investigate personal attitudes regarding mode of delivery among both medical health care professionals and non-professionals. The investigators are also investigating whether providing detailed information that might influence one's decision regarding mode of delivery (such as education on pelvic floor disorders or advantages or disadvantages of epidural anaesthesia) will change participants´ opinion how to determine their preferred mode of delivery.

A secondary aim of the survey is to gather information about personal attitudes regarding:

epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during delivery
systems of risk stratification
postnatal recovery exercises The data will be acquired with an online questionnaire designed for this study. There will be two groups in this study. The first group ("medical professionals") consists of gynecologists with either subspecialization (urogynecology , fetal and maternal medicine, obstetrics, other) and other non-OB/GYN health care providers and medical staff, regardless whether they are nurses, medical assistants, physicians, physiotherapists, midwifes, administration staff. The group of "non-professionals" consists of women who are currently pregnant, and are not healthcare professionals.

Trial design

2,605 participants in 4 patient groups

Staff of the University Clinic of Tuebingen

Description:

Online-based questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Online-based questionnaire

Participants of the 9th German Urogynecological Congress

Description:

Online-based questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Online-based questionnaire

All members of the German Society of Obsetrics and Gynecology

Description:

Online-based questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Online-based questionnaire

Pregnant women from Tübingen and Heidelberg

Description:

Online-based questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Online-based questionnaire

Trial contacts and locations

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