Mindfulness-based Intervention Prior to External Cephalic Version

Catharina Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Breech Presentation in Pregnancy; External Cephalic Version

Treatments: Behavioral: Short mindfulness-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06768060

W24.245

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness of a short mindfulness-based intervention on the success rate of external cephalic version in pregnant women with breech presentation. It is hypothesized that this intervention will increase the ECV success rate and decrease the pain experienced after the ECV.

Enrollment: 148 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant women (18+y).
• With a breech presenting fetus undergoing external cephalic version.
• Dutch/English-speaking or understanding Dutch/English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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148 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Short mindfulness-based intervention (5 minutes) prior to the external cephalic version

Treatment:

Behavioral: Short mindfulness-based intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Care as usual