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Comparison of the effect of breast pump stimulation and oxytocin administration on the length of the third stage of labor, postpartum hemorrhage, and anemia: a randomized controlled trial
Plain-language guide to PMID 29981576 (2018): randomized controlled trial study of Oxytocin in 108 women, anemia.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 29981576
- Journal
- BMC pregnancy and childbirth
- Year
- 2018
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Dashtinejad E et al. (3 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12884-018-1832-z
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
Researchers studied Oxytocin in the context of anemia in this randomized controlled trial publication.
This study aimed to compare the effect of breast pump stimulation with that of oxytocin administration regarding the duration of the third stage of labor, postpartum hemorrhage, and anemia after delivery.
Why It Was Studied
The study protocol was registered in the Iranian Randomized Controlled Trial Registry (Ref.
No.: IRCT2015050722146N1 ; Registration date: 2015-11-04).
Who Took Part
The abstract describes 108 women taking part.
PubMed indexes the participants as adults, women only.
In this study, 108 women were randomly assigned to two groups of breast pump stimulation (n = 54) and oxytocin administration (n = 54).
How the Study Was Run
In design terms this was a randomized study.
The women were allocated by chance, so the Oxytocin group and the comparison group should start out alike.
The duration of the third stage of labor, blood loss during the third stage of labor and 24 h after delivery, hemoglobin and hematocrit (before and 24 h after delivery), after-birth pain, and the number of breastfeedings during the 24 h after delivery were recorded.
The data were analyzed using the chi-square test, independent t-test, and Wilcoxon test.
What Was Measured
Topics PubMed links to this paper include Administration, Intravenous, Anemia, Breast Milk Expression, Hematocrit, Hemoglobins, Labor Stage, Third and Obstetric Labor Complications.
Author keywords: Breast stimulation and Postpartum hemorrhage.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin in 108 women in people with anemia.
Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.
The publication is from 2018 (BMC pregnancy and childbirth), a journal based in England.
More context: the Oxytocin compound page, Anemia research.
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.