Methods of induction of labor and women's experience: a population-based cohort study with mediation analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Negative childbirth experience may affect mother wellbeing and health. However, it is rarely evaluated in studies comparing methods of induction of labor (IoL).

Aim

To compare women's experience of IoL according to the method, considering the mediating role of interventions and complications of delivery.

Methods

We used data from the MEDIP prospective population-based cohort, including all women with IoL during one month in seven French perinatal networks. The experience of IoL, assessed at 2 months postpartum, was first compared between cervical ripening and oxytocin, and secondarily between different cervical ripening methods. Mediation analyses were used to measure the direct and indirect effects of cervical ripening on maternal experience, through deliv

SUBMITTER: Blanc-Petitjean P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442398 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature