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Last refreshed on: 23 February 2016
Main ID:  NCT02599610
Date of registration: 05/11/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Ankara University
Public title: Effects of Digital Vaginal Examination During Labor on Pain and Anxiety Levels
Scientific title: Effects of Digital Vaginal Examination During Labor on Pain and Anxiety : a Randomised Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: October 2015
Target sample size: 40
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02599610
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Turkey
Contacts
Name:     Erkan Kalafat, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 05334736998
Email: ekalafat@ankara.edu.tr
Affiliation: 
Name:     Erkan Kalafat
Address: 
Telephone:
Email: ekalafat@ankara.edu.tr
Affiliation: 
Name:     Erkan Kalafat, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Ankara University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Multiparous women

- Spontaneous active labor

- Cephalic presentation

Exclusion Criteria:

- Women with known psychiatric disorders

- Labor induction

- Advanced labor during admission (Dilatation greater than 7cm)

- Presence of a prenatally diagnosed anomaly in fetus

- Admission to neonatal intensive care unit after delivery

- Delayed hospital discharge due to excessive weight loss of neonate



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pregnancy
Obstetric Labor
Intervention(s)
Other: Digital vaginal examination
Device: Transperineal ultrasound examination
Primary Outcome(s)
Anxiety levels [Time Frame: Between 12 to 48 hours]
Labor pain [Time Frame: Between 12 to 48 hours]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
006
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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