Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01182038
The Swedish Birth Seat Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1,002 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Helsingborgs Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether birth on a birthing seat will effect numbers of instrumentally assisted vaginal births, vaginal traumas, blood loss,use of artificial oxytocin for labour augmentation and fetal outcomes.
Conditions
- Instrumental Vaginal Births
- Oxytocin Augmentation for Labor
- Maternal Blood Loss
- Perineal Outcomes
- Fetal Outcomes
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | BirthRite birthing seat | Randomization takes place on admission to the labor ward when the participants are in active labor.Participants in this arm were to sit on the seat for 20 minute periods.After these 20 minutes, the participant should stand and mobilize during two to three contractions, before resuming the birth seat position. If progress of the descent of the fetal head was obvious the participant was not asked to mobilize. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2007-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-07-01
- Completion
- 2009-07-01
- First posted
- 2010-08-16
- Last updated
- 2010-08-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Sweden
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01182038. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.