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Neuraxial Labor Analgesia and the Incidence of Postpartum Depression

NCT02823418 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 599

Last updated 2021-07-26

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Summary

Postpartum depression (PPD) affects approximately 15% of women during the first year after giving birth, and is common across cultures. The etiology of postpartum depression is not totally clear. The severe pain experienced during childbirth was reported to be associated with the development of postpartum depression. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate whether use of neuraxial labor analgesia can reduce the incidence of postpartum depression.

Conditions

  • Parturition
  • Analgesia, Obstetrical
  • Depression, Postpartum

Interventions

PROCEDURE

No neuraxial labor analgesia

Neuraxial analgesia will not be performed. Analgesics will be prescribed by the obstetricians according to routine practice.

PROCEDURE

Neuraxial labor analgesia

Epidural or combined spinal-epidural labor analgesia will be performed when the cervix is dilated to 1 cm or more and continued until the cervix is fully dilated to 10 cm.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Beijing Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Peking University First Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dong-Xin Wang, MD,PHD · Peking University First Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
34 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-01
Primary Completion
2015-05-29
Completion
2017-04-25

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