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The Effect of Pregnancy on Temporal Summation and Venipuncture Pain Perception

NCT01017861 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2010-09-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Recent studies have shown that women are more likely to experience pain in many medical situations. During pregnancy, women may experience an increase in pain threshold. This is thought to be related to hormonal changes and an increase in the level of certain natural pain-relieving substances in their bodies.

It is important to develop simple tests to identify woman at higher risk for pain so the investigators can help them.

Temporal summation is what happens when a person becomes more sensitive to a certain feeling on their skin when it is applied several times over the course of several seconds. The investigators hypothesize that pregnant women show decreased temporal summation and pain scores to venipuncture, compared to non-pregnant women.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jose Carvalho, MD · MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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