Effect of implementing a birth plan on maternal and neonatal outcomes: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The birth plan is an approach for pregnant women to offering their expectations of labor and birth. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of birth plan on maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Methods

This study was a randomized controlled clinical trial performed on 106 pregnant women, 32-36 weeks of pregnancy, referring to Taleghani educational hospital in Tabriz city-Iran. Participants were randomly assigned to the two groups of birth plan and control using a randomized block method. Participants in the birth plan group received the interventions based on the mother's requested birth plan. The birth plan included items of the mother's preferences in labor, mobility, eating and drinking, monitoring, pain relief, drug options, labor augmentation, push

SUBMITTER: Ahmadpour P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682672 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature