| Author/Editor | Medved, Robert | |
| Title | Vpliv prisotnosti/odsotnosti očeta pri porodu na potek poroda in stanje novorojenčka | |
| Type | monografija | |
| Place | Ljubljana | |
| Publisher | Medicinska fakulteta | |
| Publication year | 1998 | |
| Volume | str. 102 | |
| Language | slo | |
| Abstract | Background: In the Ljubljana Maternity Hospital the percentage of fathers present at their baby's birth has been rising from year to year. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of father's presence on the course of labour, the newborn's condition and the first contact with the newborn. Methods: In the study 228 randomly selected parturients who delivered in the Ljubljana Maternity Hospital in the period 28 October 1997 and 1 February 1998 and their partners were enrolled. They were divided into two groups. In the experimental group 130 parturients with their partners present at labour were allocated, and the control group consisted of 98 parturients whose partners were not present at labour. We analyzed the objective data: the doses of analgesics, oxytocin and prostaglandins used, duration of labour, neonatal Apgar scores, cord blood gas analysis, obstetrical operations, as well as the subjective data provided by two types of questionnaires. The first was filled-in by the parturients and their partners, the questions being general and psychological, and the second was filled-in by the midwives, the questions being related to the midwife's view on the presence of father at labour. Results: Butylscopolamine was administered to a significantly higher percentage of women in the experimental than in the control group (38.2% vs 24.4%; p < 0.04). During labour oxytocin was administered to, 71.5% of women in the experimental group and to only 56.4% of women in the control group, which is statistically significant (p < 0.028). The duration of labour was significantly longer in the experimental (mean 224.93 min) than in the control group (mean 189.95 min) (p < 0.015). The median value of the assessing the experience of labour on the scale from -5 to +5 was 5 for parturients and their partners in the experimental group, and 3 for parturients and 4 for their partners in the control group. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters). | |
| Descriptors | LABOR FATHERS FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL APGAR SCORE INFANT, NEWBORN UMBILICAL ARTERIES BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS SCOPOLAMINE DERIVATIVES OXYTOCIN PROSTAGLANDINS, SYNTHETIC MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS HOSPITALS, MATERNITY QUESTIONNAIRES DELIVERY ROOMS |