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Clinical Trial
Effect of psychoprophylaxis (Lamaze preparation) on labor and delivery in primiparas.
- J R Scott and N B Rose.
- N. Engl. J. Med. 1976 May 27; 294 (22): 1205-7.
AbstractTo investigate whether "prepared-childbirth" courses offer measurable physical advantages, we compared the labor and delivery characteristics of 129 primiparas who had completed ante-partum Lamaze-training psychoprophylaxis classes with an equal number of matched controls who had not. The former were given narcotics less frequently during labor (P less than 0.001), received conduction anesthesia less often (P less than 0.001), and had a higher frequency of spontaneous vaginal deliveries (P less than 0.001) than the control patients. However, these differences had no apparent effects on the length of labor, number or type of maternal complications, frequency of fetal distress, mean Apgar scored, or neonatal problems.
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