Patient Satisfaction During Physiological Water or Land Birth: a Prospective Study in an French Tertiary Maternity Unit. (AQUAMODA)

Tourcoing Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Water Birth

Treatments: Procedure: waterbirth

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06441370

22.01415.000084

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study will be carried out to compare the level of satisfaction and psychological state of women who give birth in water with those who give birth out of water.

The aim is to demonstrate the benefits of water birth and justify its place in the healthcare offering.

Enrollment: 1,200 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major patient
• Social security beneficiary
• Presence of a companion
• Delivery greater than or equal to 37 weeks of amenorhoea
• Spontaneous labor
• Cephalic presentation
• Physiological delivery by woman's choice according to 2017 HAS criteria (French recommendations)

Exclusion criteria

• Patient under court protection
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Placement of an epidural
• Language barrier
• Unexpected delivery (unwanted by the woman)
• Scarred uterus
• Meconium fluid
• Maternal pathologies: epilepsy, MS (depending on neurological opinion), diabetes (types 1 and 2), herpes infection, HIV, HBV, HCV
• History of delivery hemorrhage > 1L
• History of shoulder dystocia/clavicle fracture
• Metrorrhagia
• Administration of nalbuphine within 2 hours of birth.

Trial design

1,200 participants in 2 patient groups

women with water births

Treatment:

Procedure: waterbirth

women giving birth on land