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COMPLETEDNANCT01164657

A Swedish Trial of Birth on a Birthing Seat

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) advises against recumbent or supine position for longer periods during labour and birth and states that caregivers should encourage and support the wom...

Lead sponsor: Helsingborgs Hospital•1 locations•View source on ClinicalTrials.gov

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Lead Sponsor

Helsingborgs Hospital

Collaborators

Stig and Ragna Gorthons foundation

Age

All ages

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Inclusion Criteria

•The pilot study included primiparous women who understood the Swedish language sufficiently well to receive information and give informed consent or refusal for participation.
•Pregnancy must have been normal, with a singleton fetus in cephalic presentation and the onset of labour occurring between gestation weeks 37 + 0 and 41 + 6.
•Women having diet treated pregnancy diabetes were also included.
•Obstetric primiparous women with former caesarean section were included as well as those induced because of premature rupture of membranes (PROM).

Exclusion Criteria

•Multiparous women were excluded from the pilot study.
•Primiparous women were excluded in cases of birth before week 36 + 6, breech presentation, maternal BMI over 30, multiple pregnancy or infectious disease.

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Data from ClinicalTrials.govLast updated on ClinicalTrials.gov: July 19, 2010Terms

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StatusCOMPLETED

PhaseNA

Enrollment68

Start dateNov 2005

Last updatedJul 19, 2010

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Helsingborgs Hospital

Helsingborg, Skåne County

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This clinical trial information is sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

ClinicalTrials.gov last update: July 19, 2010Data synced to Clareo: May 25, 2026

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