Comparative Study Between Using WHO Labour Care Guide & Modified WHO Partograph

NCT06537089 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: MD-400-2023
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 230
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This randomized clinical trial is based on comparing the efficiency of modified WHO partographs vs. the new WHO labour care guide in monitoring and assessing the outcome of labour.

Conditions

Labor Onset and Length Abnormalities; 37 or More Completed Weeks of Gestation; First Birth

Keywords

labour Monitoring; primiparous

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Rate of primary caesarean section

  number of women will undergo Caesarean section after monitoring, whether by Modified WHO partograph or a labour care Guide

  First and second stage of labour

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Duration of active phase of first stage of labour

  First stage of labour

• Duration of second stage of labour

  Second stage of labour

• need for oxytocin use

  First stage of labour

Study Arms (2)

WHO labour care guide

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: LCG guided labour interference

Modified WHO partograph

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: Supportive care measures

Interventions

Supportive care measures OTHER

traditional partograph to properly manage first stage of labor

Modified WHO partograph

LCG guided labour interference OTHER

LCG as a new tool to make proper decision and management of first stage of labour

WHO labour care guide

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Primiparous women.
• Term gestation between 37 and 40 weeks.
• Maternal age from 18 -35 years
• Body mass index BMI of 18.5 to 29.9 kg/m2
• Cephalic presentation. 6. Active first stage of labour

You may not qualify if:

• Women with any medical comorbidities, such as (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, renal disease, or pulmonary disease).
• Women with presence of any obstetrical complications, such as preterm birth, multiple gestation, breech presentation, postdated pregnancy, or bad obstetrical history.
• women who were given intrapartum epidural analgesia.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hend Mahmoud Abdelghany: lead

Study Sites (1)

kasr Al Aini, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Cairo, Old Cairo, 11562, Egypt

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cairo University

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 31, 2024
• First Posted: August 5, 2024
• Study Start: August 1, 2024
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2025
• Study Completion: December 31, 2025
• Last Updated: February 23, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-02

Locations

EG (1)