Women's experiences and views of outpatient and inpatient induction of labor with oral misoprostol: A secondary qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As labor induction rates continue to increase, so has the interest in performing induction in an outpatient setting for pregnancies defined as low-risk. Twenty women participated in the pilot study of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) comparing inpatient and outpatient labor induction with oral misoprostol. This study aimed to explore women's experiences of outpatient induction of labor and their views on this as an alternative method to inpatient labor induction.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted, from November 2021 to January 2022 with eight women randomized to outpatient induction and four women randomized to inpatient induction. Verbatim transcribed interviews were analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman's content analysis.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Hægeland HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655146 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature