Effect of topical magnesium sulfate on labor duration and childbirth experience: a randomized controlled trial.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire 2.0 was used to examine childbirth experience.

Independent-samples t-tests were used to compare the groups in terms of the mean of the primary outcomes.

Why It Was Studied

Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences: IR.TBZMED.REC. 1400.726.

Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials: IRCT20100414003706N40 Registration date: 21/11/2021 ( https://en.irct.ir/trial/58323 ).

Who Took Part

The study group was 98 women.

The age groups tagged for this paper are young adults and adults, women only.

In this randomized controlled trial, the participants were 98 women with low-risk, singleton, and full-term pregnancies admitted to a teaching hospital in Iran.

The participants, interventionists, and data collectors were blinded.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

Because people in this Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

The researchers performed a modified intention-to-treat analysis, excluding those whose outcome of interest could not be assessed.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Administration, Topical, Iran, Labor, Obstetric, Magnesium Sulfate and Parturition.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Childbirth experience, Dystocia and Labor duration.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 98 women.

Its findings take up roughly 6 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2024 (BMC pregnancy and childbirth), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.