One-to-one nurse labor support of nulliparous women stimulated with oxytocin

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Oxytocin.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 3 women taking part.

PubMed tags the participants as women only.

One hundred nulliparous women 37 weeks or more gestation, carrying singletons, in labor with vertex presentation, stimulated with oxytocin, less than 5 cm dilated at baseline, and not scheduled for cesarean delivery or induction nor having paid labor support present.

Usual care consisted of care for 2-3 laboring women with supportive activities varying by nurse.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized study.

Because people in this Oxytocin study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.

One-to-one care consisted of the presence of a nurse during labor and birth who provided emotional support, physical comfort, and instruction on relaxation and coping techniques.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Cesarean Section, Dystocia, Nursing Care, Obstetric Nursing, Oxytocin and Pregnancy Outcome.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin in 3 women.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

Results are reported in around 2 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 1999 (Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Oxytocin compound page, all human trials.