The effect of intrapartum care model given in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on labor pain, fear of labor, comfort of labor, duration of labor, administration of oxytocin and perception of midwifery care: a randomized controlled study

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial paper looks at Oxytocin.

This study aimed to assess the impact of a WHO-aligned intrapartum care model on labor aspects, including pain, fear, comfort, labor duration, oxytocin use, and perceptions of supportive care.

Who Took Part

According to the abstract, 124 women were involved.

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

The study was conducted with 124 primiparous pregnant women (intervention group n = 62, control group n = 62) who were admitted to the maternity unit of a hospital in Central Anatolia, Türkiye.

The intervention group was subjected to the intrapartum care model, once cervical dilatation reached 5 cm.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was 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.

This is a randomized controlled study.

The control group received only standard intrapartum care in the hospital.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Oxytocin, Labor Pain, Labor, Obstetric, Fear, Oxytocics, Midwifery and World Health Organization.

Author keywords: WHO intrapartum care recommendations, comfort of labor, duration of labor, fear of labor, oxytocin use and perception of supportive care.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin in 124 women.

Its findings take up roughly 7 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2025 (Postgraduate medicine), a journal based in England.

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