Effect of Multisensory (Snoezelen) Environment on Birth Outcomes

Effect of Multisensory (Snoezelen) Environment on Birth Outcomes, Newborn Health Parameters and Birth Memory: Randomized Controlled Study

Giving birth is a fundamental life event that women will remember throughout their lives. While seeking perfection for the birth environment, much can be learned from other areas of expertise and different pursuits can be undertaken. An example of this is "Snoezelen rooms". In the Snoezelen environment, it is aimed to relax the woman by stimulating various senses, including visual and auditory, and by diverting attention. The room design is a combination of light music, aquarium, optical illusions and aromatic oils. This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled manner to examine the effects of a multi-sensory (snoezelen) environment on birth outcomes, newborn health parameters and birth memory.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: snoezelen room; Other: routine delivery room

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 23
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Amasya, Turkey, 05100
    • Amasya University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Those who are between the ages of 18-35
• Having a singleton pregnancy between 38-42 weeks of pregnancy
• Primiparous
• Labor started spontaneously
• In the latent phase of labor
• Without uterine contraction anomaly
• The leading part of the fetus is the head (in vertex position)
• No analgesia was applied
• There is no indication for cesarean section
• Amniotomy is not performed
• Fetal weight over 2500 g, fetal weight not over 4000 gr
• Pregnant women who do not have communication problems will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Reporting hearing, vision, smell and balance problems
• Allergy, asthma, COPD, migraine, vertigo, epilepsy, etc.
• Declaring that they have a chronic disease
• Declaring that they have a psychiatric history or a diagnosed psychological disorder
• Declaring that they have a risky health condition related to pregnancy (preeclampsia, gestational DM, etc.),
• Those who report smoking, alcohol and/or substance use
• Reports that he/she has sensory sensitivity
• Declaring an allergy to lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) or lavender oil
• Declaring that there is a person with special needs in the family
• Participated in the study voluntarily and then gave up
• Pregnant women who develop any possible side effects during the study will not be included in the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: experiment group; These women will spend labor in the snoezelen room.	Other: snoezelen room; During the travail, projectors, starry ceiling visuals and blue light LEDs will be used for visual stimuli, speakers will be used as auditory stimuli, diffusers will be used for olfactory stimuli, and therapy dough will be used for touch stimuli.
Other: control group; These women will spend the duration of labor in a standard delivery room.	Other: routine delivery room; General practice

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Personal information form	With this form, developed by the researcher taking into account literature knowledge, data on women's demographic information such as age, education level, and obstetric characteristics such as whether the pregnancy is planned and the current gestational week will be obtained (Hauck et al., 2008; Manesh et al. 2015).	on admission to the hospital
birth follow-up form	With the follow-up form prepared to evaluate the birth process using the literature, the duration of the stages during labor and the synthetic oxytocin status used will be evaluated. While these practices are evaluated, the researcher will be present in the environment only as an observer, and the practices determined as a result of the observation will be noted on the Birth Monitoring Form (Olcese et al., 2013 Momeni et al., 2020).	at the beginning of the third stage of childbirth
Birth Memory and Recall Scale	In order to evaluate women's postpartum birth memories, their birth memories, and their experiences regarding birth memories, DHHÖ conducted a study by Foley et al. (2014). It was adapted into Turkish by Topkara & Çağan (2021).	24 hours after birth

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Amasya University
• Collaborators: Ege University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 8, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 30, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): April 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 25, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2024
• First Posted (Estimated): December 13, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 13, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: newborn; birth enviroment
• Other Study ID Numbers: AU_Eliftez

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: After the article was published
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ICF; ANALYTIC_CODE; CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No