Patient Centered Simulation For Labor and Delivery

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Begins enrollment in 4 months

Conditions: Pregnancy Related

Treatments: Other: Simulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03654079

IRB00052749

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient satisfaction is an important outcome in the evaluation and development of healthcare services. Studies have identified tools that successfully measure women's childbirth experiences, and have shown that multidimensional measures of women's satisfaction in labor and delivery provides a richer and diverse perspective on women's experiences of intrapartum care. Childbirth experience can have significant effects, both positive and negative, on women's immediate and long term health outcomes. Patients with negative experiences surrounding childbirth have been shown to have significant fear surrounding the labor and delivery experience that negatively impact subsequent deliveries. Often fear is worsened by a lack of knowledge of what to expect during labor. Women enrolled in this study will simulate some of the potentially stressful experiences that commonly occur during labor to determine if doing so decreases a woman's fear and anxiety about labor and delivery.

Full description

Patient satisfaction is an important outcome in the evaluation and development of healthcare services. Studies have identified tools that successfully measure women's childbirth experiences, and have shown that multidimensional measures of women's satisfaction in labor and delivery provides a richer and diverse perspective on women's experiences of intrapartum care. Childbirth experience can have significant effects, both positive and negative, on women's immediate and long term health outcomes. Patients with negative experiences surrounding childbirth have been shown to have significant fear surrounding the labor and delivery experience that negatively impact subsequent deliveries. Often fear is worsened by a lack of knowledge of what to expect during labor. Women enrolled in this study will simulate some of the potentially stressful experiences that commonly occur during labor to determine if doing so decreases a woman's fear and anxiety about labor and delivery. Women in Centering Pregnancy groups will be approached and assigned to either the intervention or control arm by Centering Pregnancy group. Those in the intervention arm will participate in simulations in the following areas: 1) In-Utero Resuscitation Simulation: the process that may occur if a baby has a significant drop in heart rate during labor, 2) Cesarean Section Simulation: the process of moving from the labor bed to the transport stretcher and on to the operating room in the event that a laboring woman needs a cesarean delivery, 3) Pushing Simulation: the pushing process after a laboring woman becomes completely dilated. Those in the control arm will not receive this education. All patient will complete a modified Childbirth Experience Questionnaire the day after delivery. Responses will be compared between the woman that participated in the simulations to women who did not participate in simulations.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 44 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nulliparous pregnant women
• In third trimester

Exclusion criteria

• Not planning on delivering with Wake Forest School of Medicine OB/GYN

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Simulation Arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this arm will participate in Interventions (In- Utero Simulation, Cesarean Section Simulation, and Pushing Simulation).

Treatment:

Other: Simulation

Control Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects in this arm will not participate in any simulations.