Chronic Pain After Childbirth - Caesarean Section Compared to Vaginal Delivery and the Impact of Pre-existing Pain

NCT ID: NCT03216044

Last Updated: 2017-07-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 355 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-06-27

Brief Summary

There is no doubt, that surgery is very often the beginning of a chronic pain disorder. C-section is a worldwide performed operation with increasing trend in the developed countries .This prospective cohort study evaluated the incidence of persistent pain after childbirth in respect of the pain status before childbirth and the modus of delivery.

Detailed Description

There are different variables that may influence the occurrence of chronic pain after childbirth. One of these could be c- section , pain status before childbirth or other psychological factors like fear of birth, irrational cognitive beliefs about delivery and perinatal complications. The pain status (intensity and location), demographic data, anesthesiological details and data about the circumstances of birth are evaluated by structured interview during pregnancy and 3 month and 12 moth after childbirth. The pregnant women received an individual code for access to the survey on the website of the study. The recruitment takes placed in doctors or midwifes office and by advertising. The commuting area was the city of Tuebingen (Germany). Women who feel uncomfortable with the media based survey supplied a written form. Study population is planned with 500 participants. The Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry support the statistical analysis.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age of consent
• must be german-speaking

Exclusion Criteria

• no written consent

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University Hospital Tuebingen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

451/2011BO2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id