The Effect of Clove Oil on Labor Pain

Ankara City Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor Pain

Treatments: Other: Massage Application with clove oil; Other: Massage Application without any oil

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05130957

AnkaraCHBilkent-MH-NK-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study has two groups. one of them is experimental group that is given massage with clove oil. The other one is control group that is given standard midwifery care. Each group consists of 30 women. We will evaluate their labor pain scores by using Visual Analogue Scale before and after massage application.

Full description

Labor is a painful process. That's why there are lots of nonpharmacological methods to reduce labor pain. Especially most clinical guide suggests giving massage to pregnant who has labor pain. In the literature, there are a lot of study examining effectiveness of massage techniques. However there is no study about massage application with clove oil on labor pain. The investigators would like to give a massage with clove oil to pregnants to reduce their labor pain. Hereby the investigators will evaluate effectiveness of clove oil.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All of volunteer and pregnant women is 18-35 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• The pregnant women has any obstetrical complications.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

The pregnant women in the experimental group are given a massage with clove oil.

Treatment:

Other: Massage Application with clove oil

Control Group

Other group

Description:

The pregnant women in the control group are given a massage without any oil as standard midwifery care

Treatment:

Other: Massage Application without any oil