The Effect of Wireless Fetal Monitoring System on Comfort, Pain and Satisfaction

Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pregnancy Related

Treatments

Device: wireless fetal monitoring system

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05778435

TRTOKAT60

Details and patient eligibility

About

Wireless EFM shortens labor duration, increases birth satisfaction, and reduces perceived pain during labor. With wireless EFM, comfort in labor increases and higher labor comfort increases birth satisfaction. As perceived pain in labor decreases, birth satisfaction increases. Therefore, wireless EFM practice is recommended during the antepartum and intrapartum periods.

Full description

Problem Wired Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) limits the woman's freedom of movement during labor, causes inability to cope with labor pain, lack of comfort, and a decrease in labor satisfaction.

Background While EFM is performed as wired and wireless in the antepartum and intrapartum periods, wired application is common in the world and in our country.

Aim This randomized controlled study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the wireless fetal monitoring, which is used during birth, on the woman's comfort, labor pain and birth satisfaction.

Methods The study population consisted of 88 women, divided into two groups the experimental group (n=44) and the control group (n=44). The data were collected with the Personal Information Form, Childbirth Comfort Questionnaire (CCQ), Visual Pain Scale (VAS), and Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). During the intrapartum period, the wireless fetal monitoring system was used in the experimental group and the wired fetal monitoring system was used in the control group.

Enrollment

88 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant women who are willing to participate in the study,
Aged 18-40 years,
Having a healthy pregnancy,
With a gestational age of > 37+0 weeks,
With a cervical dilatation of 4-5 cm,
With a singleton pregnancy,
With a live fetus,
Can speak Turkish,
Do not have comprehension, perception, and communication problems participated in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant women who did not comply with the study had communication problems,
Had complications,
Needed urgent cesarean delivery and wanted to withdraw from the study were excluded from the study