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Study of Having a Female Friend as Labor Support

NCT00127361 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 600

Last updated 2005-08-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare labor outcomes in women accompanied by an additional support person (doula group) with outcomes in women who did not have this additional support person (control group).

The current study was designed with the benefits of continuous labor support in mind as well as the need for a cost-effective, affordable program to provide those services for low-income women. Its purpose was to evaluate the effects of continuous labor support provided by a female companion of the pregnant person's choosing who, with the mother, had participated in an educational program to teach her how to provide continuous labor support.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy
  • Delivery, Obstetric

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

doula training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Saint Peters University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Della A Campbell, PhDc · Saint Peters University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1998-01-31
Completion
2003-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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