Prenatal labor analgesia education program on outcomes for primiparas: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A significant number of primiparous women lack awareness of labor epidural analgesia, resulting in lower acceptance of labor epidural analgesia. Additional prenatal education may help primiparas understand labor epidural analgesia and increase labor epidural analgesia rates. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate the effects of an online and offline prenatal labor epidural analgesia education program for primiparas to improve their labor epidural analgesia rate and to reduce their misunderstanding of labor epidural analgesia and fear of birth.

Methods

A single-blinded, randomized, controlled, parallel-design trial will be conducted. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, online and offline prenatal labor epidural analgesia education program has fiv

SUBMITTER: Wu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11762463 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature