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

NCT06036277 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRBN702023/CHUSTE
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 249
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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

Keywords

Water immersion; Waterbirth; Childbirth; Labor pain; Epidural anesthesia; Physiological delivery; Pregnant women; General medicine

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of requests for epidural anesthesia by parturients

  Retrospective collection of medical data from the computer software Easily in Saint-Etienne university hospital center.

  Day 0

Secondary Outcomes (11)

• Duration of the first stage of childbirth

  Day 0

• Duration of the second stage of childbirth

  Day 0

• Duration of the third stage of childbirth

  Day 0

• Number of instrumental extractions

  Day 0

• Number of caesareans

  Day 0

Study Arms (2)

Experimental group

Women who wish to give birth without epidural anesthesia and have benefited of water immersion during labor

Other: General data; Other: Other data

Control group

Women who wish to give birth without epidural anesthesia and have not benefited of water immersion during labor

Other: General data; Other: Other data

Interventions

General data OTHER

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

Control group; Experimental group

Other data OTHER

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.

Control group; Experimental group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Pregnent women who used the physiological delivery room of the Saint-Etienne University Hospital between October 2020 and December 2022.

You may qualify if:

• All women who used the physiological delivery room of the Saint-Etienne University Hospital between October 2020 and December 2022.

You may not qualify if:

• Absence of physiological desire for childbirth.
• Medical indication for epidural anesthesia.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne: lead

Study Sites (1)

CHU Saint Etienne

Saint-Etienne, 42000, France

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Labor Pain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Tiphaine BARJAT, MD PhD

  CHU SAINT-ETIENNE

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 21, 2023
• First Posted: September 13, 2023
• Study Start: May 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2023
• Study Completion: June 30, 2023
• Last Updated: September 13, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)