NCT01424059

Induction of Women With Fear of Labor

Planned Induction of Women With Fear of Labor and Evaluation of the Experience of Delivery

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Uppsala University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the experience of labor in parous women induced because of fear of labor and, to compare the experience of parous women induced without fear of labor. A comparison with the experience of women delivered with elective cesarean section because of fear of labor is done. In the induced labors, the induction method is amniotomy. Between groups the experience of delivery is evaluated with a questionnaire: Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire(WEDQ-B). Groups are also compared with regard to time from induction to delivery and rate of operative delivery. Hypotheses: * there is no difference in experience of delivery * there is no difference in time to delivery or rate of operative deliveries

Conditions

• Fear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	WEDQ-B (questionnaire)	Questionnaires are answered after delivery; within 48 hours and after five weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2011-08-26
• Last updated: 2011-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden