Effect of Mother's Push at Cesarean Delivery Mother's PUSHING AT CS A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

NCT ID: NCT05520580

Last Updated: 2022-08-30

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-01

Study Completion Date

2021-03-20

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of the mother's active pushing during cesarean delivery.

Detailed Description

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Patients, who are getting a scheduled cesarean section and having no contraindication for valsalva manoeuvres are eligible for this study. The gestational week should be between 37 and 42 weeks. Patients have to provide informed consent to this study. Patients must have epidural anaesthesia. They must understand the German language in order to understand information during cesarean section and correctly fill-out the questionnaires. Emergent cesarean sections or pregnant women known with chronic pain, severe preeclampsia or HELLP-Syndrome will be excluded.

179 patients were initially recruited, of which 79 were excluded. The 100 patients were grouped into two study groups; Conventional and Assisted Groups. The grouping was performed randomly using simple randomization. Based on the findings of Armbrust et al and our clinical experience we expect a therapeutic effect of 20% which results in a mean visual analog scale reduction of 1.2. Applying a two-sided T-Test for independent samples at a significance level of 0.05, a mean difference of 0.8 between the groups and a standard deviation of 2, we need 17 patients per treatment arm to detect a difference between both treatment groups with a power of 80%14. The number of patients per treatment arm was increased to 50 patients to make up for any missing data.

Conditions

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Caesarean Section Mother-Child Relations Post Operative Pain Postpartum Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

prospective randomized study
Primary Study Purpose

SCREENING

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Conventional Group

Received a classic CS without intervention (Control group)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Assisted group

after uterotomy during CS, the mother was instructed and motivated to push for the delivery of the head and the shoulders of the baby. Simultaneously, the surgical assistant applied fundal pressure to support the mothers pushing if necessary.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mother's push during CS

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

after uterotomy, the mother was instructed and motivated to push for the delivery of the head and the shoulders of the baby. Simultaneously, the surgical assistant applied fundal pressure to support the mothers pushing if necessary

Interventions

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Mother's push during CS

after uterotomy, the mother was instructed and motivated to push for the delivery of the head and the shoulders of the baby. Simultaneously, the surgical assistant applied fundal pressure to support the mothers pushing if necessary

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Minimum age of 18 years
* Written consent
* Pregnant women between 37 - 42 weeks
* No fetal abnormalities.
* Scheduled primary C-Section (category 3\&4 NICE guidelines) with epidural anaesthesia

Exclusion Criteria

* Emergent cesarean section
* Contraindication for epidural anaesthesia.
* Multiple pregnancies
* Scheduled C-section with placenta previa, accreta, increta or percreta. Secondary C-section
* Contraindication for Valsalva manoeuvre
* Known psychiatric illnesses
* Known chronic Pain, taking Pain killers regularly
* language barrier
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Hannover Medical School

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Peter Hillemanns, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Hannover Medical School

Stefan Engeli, Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hannover medical school (MHH)

Locations

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Hanover medical school

Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

References

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Wacker J. Geburtshilfe. Kaiserschnitt vs. Natürliche Geburt. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd. 2010;70(10):840-3.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Beckmann M W, Bader W BI. Finanzierung und finanzielle Probleme von Leistungen und Strukturen im Fachgebiet Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe im Jahr 2011 - allgemeine Aspekte und geburtshilfliche Versorgung. Geburtsh Frauenheilk. 2011.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

DiMatteo MR, Morton SC, Lepper HS, Damush TM, Carney MF, Pearson M, Kahn KL. Cesarean childbirth and psychosocial outcomes: a meta-analysis. Health Psychol. 1996 Jul;15(4):303-14. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.15.4.303.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 8818678 (View on PubMed)

Clement S. Psychological aspects of caesarean section. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2001 Feb;15(1):109-26. doi: 10.1053/beog.2000.0152.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11359318 (View on PubMed)

Smith J, Plaat F, Fisk NM. The natural caesarean: a woman-centred technique. BJOG. 2008 Jul;115(8):1037-42; discussion 1042. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2008.01777.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18651885 (View on PubMed)

Armbrust R, Hinkson L, von Weizsacker K, Henrich W. The Charite cesarean birth: a family orientated approach of cesarean section. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016;29(1):163-8. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2014.991917. Epub 2015 Jan 9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Sitter-Trollmann P. " Stillen und Selbstwirksamkeit - ein Beitrag zur präventiven Erfassung von Stillproblemen durch standardisierte Instrumente ". 2011;147. Available from: http://othes.univie.ac.at/16715/

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Vaziri F, Arzhe A, Asadi N, Pourahmad S, Moshfeghy Z. Spontaneous Pushing in Lateral Position versus Valsalva Maneuver During Second Stage of Labor on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2016 Aug 10;18(10):e29279. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.29279. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Siddik SM, Aouad MT, Jalbout MI, Rizk LB, Kamar GH, Baraka AS. Diclofenac and/or propacetamol for postoperative pain management after cesarean delivery in patients receiving patient controlled analgesia morphine. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2001 Jul-Aug;26(4):310-5. doi: 10.1053/rapm.2001.21828.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11464348 (View on PubMed)

Sayed A, Sayed AA, Fard D, Hillemanns P, Von Kaisenberg C, Klapdor R. Effect of mother's active pushing at cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2025 Mar;311(3):599-607. doi: 10.1007/s00404-024-07835-1. Epub 2024 Nov 27.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39601809 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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Rklapdor

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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