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The Effect of Focusing on the Maryam's Flower During the Birth Process on Labor Pain, Labor Duration and Perceived Fatigue in Birth

What is being tested

Focusing on Maryam's Flower

Other

Who is being recruted

Neurologic Manifestations+2

+ Pain

+ Signs and Symptoms

From 18 to 55 Years

+14 Eligibility Criteria

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How is the trial designed

Supportive Care Study

Interventional

Study Start: November 2023

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Summary

Principal SponsorOndokuz Mayıs University

Last updated: January 28, 2026

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Study start date: November 21, 2023

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

This study explores how focusing on Maryam's Flower during childbirth might affect a mother's experience of labor, specifically looking at pain levels, the length of labor, and feelings of tiredness. The study targets expectant mothers in the delivery room in Turkey. It aims to discover whether this method can provide a natural way to support women during labor, potentially offering a simple and effective way to ease the birth process. Participants in this study will be asked to concentrate on Maryam's Flower during labor. Researchers will then monitor and record any changes in the mothers' pain levels, the duration of their labor, and their overall fatigue. This approach hopes to provide insights into whether such a focus can make labor easier and more comfortable without any medication, offering a safe and non-invasive option for childbirth support.

Official TitleThe Effect of Focusing on the Maryam's Flower During the Birth Process on Labor Pain, Labor Duration and Perceived Fatigue in Birth

NCT06128759

Principal SponsorOndokuz Mayıs University

Last updated: January 28, 2026

Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Design Details

126 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Supportive Care Study

These studies explore ways to improve comfort and daily life for people living with a condition. They may focus on easing symptoms, reducing treatment side effects, or supporting overall well-being.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Conditions

Criteria

Female

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 18 to 55 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Neurologic ManifestationsPainSigns and SymptomsPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsLabor Pain

Criteria

8 inclusion criteria required to participate

Being 18 years or older,

being in 37-42 weeks of pregnancy,

being primiparous,

having a single healthy fetus,

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6 exclusion criteria prevent from participating

maternal and fetal complications

pregnant with assisted reproductive techniques,

having a presentation anomaly,

having a twin pregnancy,

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Study Plan

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Treatment Groups

Study Objectives

One single intervention group is designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental

Maryam's flower will place in a bowl of water and left in the room of the pregnant women who will at 1 cm cervical dilatation and in the first phase of the labor. It will explain to the pregnant women that the leaves of the plant would open up in the water, and they will ask to imagine that the birth canal would simultaneously open up. In effect, they will told to focus on the opening of these leaves during the course of the labor.. After birth, the flower used only as a focusing method will be removed from the water and its water will be poured.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Study Centers

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This study has 1 location

Suspended

Ondokuz Mayis University

Samsun, Turkey (Türkiye)Open Ondokuz Mayis University in Google Maps

CompletedOne Study Center