NCT04204395

Efficacy of Peanut Ball Usage on Labor Pain, Support and Control, Anxiety, and Labor Duration

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

\*Primary: To compare the control group, women in the experimental group will have lower level of labor pain after the intervention of peanut ball usage. \*Secondary: To compare the control group, women in the experimental group will have higher level of support and control after the intervention of peanut ball usage; To compare the control group, women in the experimental group will have lower level of anxiety after intervention of peanut ball usage; To compare the control group, women in the experimental group will have shorter duration of labor after intervention of peanut ball usage.

Detailed description

We will ask the participants to join this research on the department of obstetric outpatient department, and give the consent form to sign. Then we will allocate the participant into the experiment group or the control group, furthermore, we will give the sheet which includes the information about peanut ball usage, like the destination, method, position, duration, and quick response code of the video. When they finish the admission process in the delivery room, we will give the peanut ball to the participants who is in the experimental group, and the participants of the control group will receive the routine care of delivery room.

Conditions

• Labor Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Peanut Ball	The participants in the experimental group will use the peanut ball at least every 2 hours, 30-minute usage for each time. More frequency will be available. Then, the participants will stop using the peanut ball when cervical os is dilated and effaced, may be ready to push.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-25
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2019-12-19
• Last updated: 2020-10-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan