Status:
COMPLETED
Massage Therapy Study: Massage Therapy and Labour Outcomes
Lead Sponsor:
University of British Columbia
Collaborating Sponsors:
Massage Therapy Foundation
Holistic Health Research
Conditions:
Pain During Labour
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-35 years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
OBJECTIVE: To measure the benefits of massage, administered by a registered massage therapist, to pain management for women in active labour. DESIGN: A randomized controlled trial. SETTING: BC Women...
Detailed Description
Goal and Objectives: The overall purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of massage therapy provided by registered massage therapists in managing pain among women in active labour. ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy primiparous women
- Nulliparous
- Singleton gestation
- Cephalic presentation
- Term gestation (37-41 completed weeks of pregnancy)
- Maternal age between 18 and 35 years of age
- In spontaneous labour, defined for our purposes as painful contractions which have resulted in cervical change, i.e. cervix is 1 cm dilated or more with effacement at 25% (0.5 cm) or more on admission to the labour unit
- Able to speak and read English or speak a language for which there is a nursing interpreter available
- Exclusion Criteria
- Pre-existing medical conditions including but not limited to: insulin dependent diabetes, renal, cardiac, or thyroid conditions, hypertension, epilepsy, psychosis, use of illicit street drugs
- Conditions arising during pregnancy which require non-routine surveillance and/or intervention including but not limited to gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, 2nd or 3rd trimester hemorrhage, intrauterine growth restriction, presence of a fetal congenital anomaly, history of preterm prelabour rupture of membranes
- Statement by women on admission that she has been in labour for more than 24 hours
- Cervical dilatation 10 cm (full dilatation) on admission to the labour ward
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
77 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00611221
Start Date
January 1 2008
End Date
May 1 2009
Last Update
April 27 2011
Active Locations (1)
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BC Women's Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6H 3N1