The Effectiveness of Breathing Patterns to Control Maternal Anxiety during the First Period of Labor: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
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Objective Assess the efficacy of the breathing patterns during the active phase of the first stage of labor for maternal anxiety. Desing Randomised trial with two treatment arms and intention-to-treat analysis. Participants One Hundred and forty patient in active labour, age between 12 and 40 years old and gestational age between 37 and 41 weeks. The breathing patterns waere made depending on the dilation phase and intensity of contraction, while the control group received routine care service. Results There was no difference between groups two hours after the first evaluation regarding to anxiety (MD 0.3 CI95% -4.2 to 4.8), pain (MD 0.0 CI95% -0.8 to 0.7), fatigue (MD -0.5 CI95% -1.4 to 2.5) and maternal satisfaction (MD 0.9 CI95% -0.1 to 2.0). Conclusions The study results showed that the use of breathing patterns during the first period of labour were not effective to control anxiety, pain, fatigue and maternal satisfaction.
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Existing literature confirms widespread benefits of slow breathing practices for stress/anxiety reduction, but null or negative results are reported in some studies.
“Although existing literature confirms the widespread benefits of slow breathing practices for stress/anxiety reduction [23,24,25,35,36,37,38], null or negative results are reported in some studies [39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50].”
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- Authors
- Boaviagem, A., Melo Junior, E., Lubambo, L., Sousa, P., Aragão, C., Albuquerque, S., & Lemos, A.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (BR)
- Corresponding author
- Lemos, A.
- Venue
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 26
- Pages
- 30-35
- ISSN
- 1744-3881 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2549825072
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 3.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Foundation for Science and Technology of the State of Pernambuco (FACEPE)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Pregnancy-related medical research
- Keywords
- breathing pattern, maternal anxiety, first stage of labor, active phase of labor, labor pain, fatigue, maternal satisfaction, breathing exercises
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Breathing Exercises, Female, Humans, Labor Stage, First, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Young Adult
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