Parturients' Stated Preferences for Labor Analgesia: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to investigate the extent to which treatment benefits, risks and costs affected parturients' preferences for labor analgesia.

Methods

We recruited 248 healthy parturients prior to labor at an antenatal ward and administered a discrete choice experiment survey. Parturients were asked to choose among four hypothetical forms of labor analgesia: epidural analgesia, pethidine, Entonox and no analgesia, which were defined by: pain score, duration of second stage of labor, risks of instrumental delivery, back pain and permanent nerve injury, and out-of-pocket cost. We used mixed logit model to calculate the relative importance of each attribute (out of 100).

Results

Parturients preferred receiving labor analgesia over not receiving analgesia and t

SUBMITTER: Ozdemir S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005131 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature