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Influence of Immersion in Water During Labor on the Request of Epidural Anesthesia by Pregnant Women

NCT06036277 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 249

Last updated 2023-09-13

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Summary

Women are showing a growing interest in less medicalized childbirth. According to the french 2021 perinatal survey, 52.2% of women want to limit medical procedures and 38.2% of women want childbirth without epidural anesthesia. Between 77 and 82% of deliveries nevertheless lead to an epidural anesthesia. The painful feeling seems to be the main motivation for using this mode of anesthesia.

Conditions

  • Delivery
  • Labor Pain

Interventions

OTHER

General data

General data will be collected to ensure that both groups are comparable : maternal age, maternal BMI, gestational age, parity, number of children in current pregnancy, history of caesarian section, newborn child weight

OTHER

Other data

Other data collected will be used to estimate primary and secondary outcomes : request for an epidural anesthesia by the parturient, medical indication for peridural anesthesia, duration of childbirth, delivery methods, occurrence of maternal or neonatal complications.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tiphaine BARJAT, MD PhD · CHU SAINT-ETIENNE

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-01
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-06-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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