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Active Management of the Third Stage of Labour: Uterine Tonus Assessment by Midwife vs. Patient Self-administration

NCT02223806 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2016-11-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To determine whether there is a difference in effectiveness of routine uterine tonus assessment (every 15 minutes, for 2 hours) when performed by a midwife or self-administered by a patient on the incidence of postpartum haemorrhage, mean blood loss, and other maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Conditions

  • Postpartum Hemorrhage

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Uterine Tonus Assessment by Midwife

Uterine tonus assessment every 15 minutes for 2 hours.

BEHAVIORAL

Patient self-assessment of uterine tonus

Uterine tonus assessment by patient every 15 minutes for 2 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Ghana

    collaborator OTHER

  • UMC Utrecht

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joyce L Browne, MD, MSc · UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands

  • Kerstin D Klipstein-Grobusch, PhD MSc · University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Nelson Damale, MBChB · Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • Ghana

Study Locations

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