NCT05130957

The Effect of Clove Oil on Labor Pain

The Effect of Massage Applied With Clove Oil on Perceived Labor Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ankara City Hospital Bilkent · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Labor Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Massage Application with clove oil	The experimental group is given a massage with clove oil,
OTHER	Massage Application without any oil	The control group is given a massage without any oil as a standard midwifery care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-01
• Primary completion: 2022-02-01
• Completion: 2022-09-01
• First posted: 2021-11-23
• Last updated: 2023-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)