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Patient Centered Simulation For Labor and Delivery
Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Summary
Patient satisfaction is an important outcome in the evaluation and development of healthcare services. Studies have identified tools that successfully measure women's childbirth experiences, and have shown that multidimensional measures of women's satisfaction in labor and delivery provides a richer and diverse perspective on women's experiences of intrapartum care. Childbirth experience can have significant effects, both positive and negative, on women's immediate and long term health outcomes. Patients with negative experiences surrounding childbirth have been shown to have significant fear surrounding the labor and delivery experience that negatively impact subsequent deliveries. Often fear is worsened by a lack of knowledge of what to expect during labor. Women enrolled in this study will simulate some of the potentially stressful experiences that commonly occur during labor to determine if doing so decreases a woman's fear and anxiety about labor and delivery.
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - 44 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2026-07
Completion Date
2027-05
Last Updated
2025-12-18
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Simulation
Participants assigned to the intervention group will participate in the following simulations: 1) the process that may occur if a baby has a significant drop in heart rate during labor, 2) the process of moving from the labor bed to the transport stretcher and on to the operating room in the event that a woman needs a cesarean delivery, 3) the pushing process after a woman becomes completely dilated
Locations (1)
Wake Forest Baptist Health Downtown Health Plaza
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States