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The Effect of Uterine and Nipple Stimulation on Induction With Oxytocin and the Labor Process
Plain-language guide to PMID 26444882 (2015): randomized controlled trial study of Oxytocin.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 26444882
- Journal
- Worldviews on evidence-based nursing
- Year
- 2015
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Demirel G et al. (2 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1111/wvn.12116
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
The paper reports a study of Oxytocin, published as a randomized controlled trial.
The present research study was conducted with the objective of determining the effect of uterine and nipple stimulation on induction with oxytocin and the birth process.
Why It Was Studied
Therefore, these interventions should be considered for pregnant women in labor.
Who Took Part
PubMed tags the participants as women only.
A randomized controlled experiment was conducted at the maternity ward of a state hospital located in the province of Sivas in Turkey.
Three hundred ninety pregnant women who were giving birth via vaginal delivery were randomly assigned to three groups (nipple stimulation, uterine stimulation, control).
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.
After the birth, the groups were assessed in terms of the birth duration and synthetic induction with oxytocin.
Statistical analyses were performed through the use of SPSS 14.0 software and included analysis of variance, Tukey's test, Dunnett's test, Tamhane's T2 test, and chi-square test.
What Was Measured
PubMed files the paper under topics including Labor, Induced, Nipples, Oxytocics, Oxytocin, Physical Stimulation, Turkey and Uterus.
The authors tagged it with the keywords care delivery system, evidence-based practice, family-child health, interventionresearch/experimental research, nurse-midwifery and obstetrics.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin.
The abstract goes on to report its results in about 4 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.
The publication is from 2015 (Worldviews on evidence-based nursing), a journal based in United States.
More context: the Oxytocin compound page, all human trials.
Our Notes on the Compound
Oxytocin: A peptide hormone with established obstetric medical uses and a less settled role in research on behavior, sexual function and appetite.
Related Pages
Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.