Status:
COMPLETED
Early Labour Assessment and Support at Home
Lead Sponsor:
University of British Columbia
Collaborating Sponsors:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Conditions:
Latent Phase Labour
Eligibility:
FEMALE
16-42 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
To determine, among healthy first time mothers who are uncertain as to when to come to hospital in labour, if home visits by obstetrical nurses compared to telephone advice have an impact on reducing ...
Detailed Description
Nurses hired by the early labour and support at home (ELASH) study will be situated in the assessment/triage areas of each hospital to recruit subjects for 24 hours per day, seven days per week. After...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Pre-registered to deliver at BC Women's or Surrey Memorial Hospital
- Living within a 30-minute drive of the hospital
- Age 16-42
- 37-42 completed weeks of gestation
- Singleton fetus in the vertex position
- Telephone in the home
- Speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin or Punjabi
- Nulliparous
Exclusion
- Women whose primary caregivers are midwives. (women who are receiving midwifery care are excluded because midwives routinely visit their clients in early labour at home. At present there are only 30 midwife-attended births per month in both hospitals combined.)
- Women whose prenatal record (forwarded to the hospital at 36 weeks) documents abnormalities of the placenta, diabetes, either gestational or pre-existing, maternal cardio-vascular or renal dysfunction, fetal anomalies or abnormal amniotic fluid volumes, or any other concern documented on the prenatal form which would preclude the parturient labouring in the latent phase of labour at home.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2001
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
August 1 2004
Estimated Enrollment :
1466 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00225329
Start Date
September 1 2001
End Date
August 1 2004
Last Update
September 23 2005
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