Delivering Empowering Conversations About Obstetric Regional Anesthesia for Underserved Minorities

Description

Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric anesthesia care remains persistent despite studies documenting its existence and calling for action. The goal of this study is to share disparity data with underserved minority groups being admitted to the labor and delivery unit for obstetric care, to reduce mistrust and misconceptions regarding obstetric anesthesia care, and to bridge the cultural gap between patient beliefs and safe anesthetic care and to empower patients through transparency and provide them with the information necessary to make informed decisions about their care, to improve health literacy, and to ultimately improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Conditions

Postpartum Recovery

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Study overview

Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric anesthesia care remains persistent despite studies documenting its existence and calling for action. The goal of this study is to share disparity data with underserved minority groups being admitted to the labor and delivery unit for obstetric care, to reduce mistrust and misconceptions regarding obstetric anesthesia care, and to bridge the cultural gap between patient beliefs and safe anesthetic care and to empower patients through transparency and provide them with the information necessary to make informed decisions about their care, to improve health literacy, and to ultimately improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Delivering Empowering Conversations About Obstetric Regional Anesthesia for Underserved Minorities

Delivering Empowering Conversations About Obstetric Regional Anesthesia for Underserved Minorities

Condition
Postpartum Recovery
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

New York

The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States, 10029

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Parturient patients being admitted to the labor and delivery unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
  • * Patients of age 18 or greater with a singleton fetus of at least 37 weeks of gestation that present in spontaneous labor, for induction of labor, or augmentation of labor.
  • * Patients in the first stage of labor and who have consented for placement of a labor epidural.
  • * Patients who are in severe labor pain following verbal informed consent prohibiting them from participating in the discussion,
  • * Patients who present with a coagulopathy or on anticoagulation medications that exclude them from receiving labor epidural analgesia,
  • * Patients who do not consent to labor epidural placement, or if they are on a mid-wife service.
  • * Patients that are converted to a cesarean delivery following trial of labor

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,

Samuel DeMaria Jr., MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Allen Ninh, MD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Daniel Katz, MD, STUDY_CHAIR, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Record Dates

2025-05