An Informative Video Before Planned External Cephalic Version

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexFemale
Age18-45
SponsorMeir Medical Center

About this trial

A randomized control trial to investigate whether an informative video before planned external cephalic version reduces maternal anxiety and improves chances of success.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Women between ages 18-45

with a singleton gestation

at gestational week of 36 weeks 0 days until 38 weeks 0 days

who admitted labor word for external cephalic version .

Disqualifiers

Women who had a past cesarean section

Women with oligohydramnios (Amniotic fluid index < 5 cm)

Women who had a past external cephalic version

Women with a failed external cephalic version in current pregnancy

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Video

    Other intervention

    All participants in the intervention group watches an informative video on recruitment. This video describes in detail the expected external cephalic version process.

Treatment groups

200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: 1. group that watches an informative videoExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: 2. group that does not watch an informative videoNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

higher success rates.

Comparing the percentage of successful External Cephalic Version (ECV) procedures between patients who watched an informative video about the procedure and those who did not receive this intervention.

Time frame
4 years

Secondary outcomes

1

impact of watching an informative video before external cephalic version on maternal anxiety levels

Assessing anxiety levels using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, administered at two time frames - before the External Cephalic Version (ECV) and an hour after - to determine if women who watch an informative video about the procedure experience lower anxiety compared to those who do not.

Time frame
4 years

Other outcomes

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