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The Swedish Birth Seat Trial

NCT01182038 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1002

Last updated 2010-08-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether birth on a birthing seat will effect numbers of instrumentally assisted vaginal births, vaginal traumas, blood loss,use of artificial oxytocin for labour augmentation and fetal outcomes.

Conditions

  • Instrumental Vaginal Births
  • Oxytocin Augmentation for Labor
  • Maternal Blood Loss
  • Perineal Outcomes
  • Fetal Outcomes

Interventions

DEVICE

BirthRite birthing seat

Randomization takes place on admission to the labor ward when the participants are in active labor.Participants in this arm were to sit on the seat for 20 minute periods.After these 20 minutes, the participant should stand and mobilize during two to three contractions, before resuming the birth seat position. If progress of the descent of the fetal head was obvious the participant was not asked to mobilize.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Stig & Ragna Gorthon Foundation, Helsingborg

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Helsingborgs Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ingegerd Hildingsson, PhD · Karolinska Institutet

  • Linda J Kvist, PhD · Helsingborg Hospital, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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