NCT05557383

Effect of Using Peanut Ball on the Length of Labor for Women Laboring With an Epidural

Department of Nursing Hui-Chin Chen Head Nurse

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 190 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taichung Veterans General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Effect of using peanut ball on the length of labor, delivery pattern and childbirth satisfaction for women laboring with an Epidural.This study aims to understand the intervention of using peanut ball in the future during the delivery period is expected.it is expected to reduce the cesarean section with delayed delivery.

Detailed description

In this study, expectant mothers who used epidural anesthesia to reduce pain during delivery in the delivery room of a central medical center, including primiparous women and menstrual women, were evaluated for compliance with the acceptance criteria through the mother's manual and maternity examination data. The maternal agreed to fill out the subject consent form,After obtaining the consent form of the test subject, it is included in the research object of this trial. It is expected that 190 expectant mothers will be accepted, and 40 expectant mothers will be accepted. The research tool uses the Chinese version of the Mackey Childbirth Satisfaction Rating Scale to measure women's satisfaction with the behavioral performance of self, partner, and baby during delivery / production. The scale was agreed by the original author and translator. Use consists of six levels: overall satisfaction (3 questions), self-satisfaction (9 questions), newborns (3 questions), midwifery care workers (9 questions), physicians (6 questions), and Satisfaction with partners (2 questions), a total of 32 items. After data collection, the data will be archived and analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 22.0) software.

Conditions

• Labor
• Epidural Anesthesia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	use peanut ball	The peanut ball was placed between the legs of a woman in the intervention group immediately after she received her epidural and consented to participate in the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-24
• Primary completion: 2020-06-18
• Completion: 2020-08-31
• First posted: 2022-09-28
• Last updated: 2022-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan