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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2025

Feasibility Study for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Aromatherapy Footbath for Stimulating Onset of Labor in Term Pregnant Women.

Yuriko Tadokoro, Kaori Takahata

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yuriko TadokoroChiba Faculty of Nursing, Tokyo Healthcare University, Funabashi 273-8710, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4074-4683
Kaori TakahataSchool of Nursing, Shonan Kamakura University of Medical Sciences, Kamakura 247-0066, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8141-3354

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP19K21434 / JP18H06351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the feasibility of a new research methodology designed for conducting a future, large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT). This future RCT is aimed at evaluating the effects of repeated aromatherapy footbaths on stimulating the onset of labor. Herein, we conducted a pilot RCT with two arms among low-risk pregnant women at or beyond 39 weeks of gestation before labor onset. These two arms consisted of a treatment group performing aromatherapy footbaths twice a day (n = 7) and a usual care group (n = 8). This study was prospectively registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of the University Hospital Medical Information Network in Japan (UMIN000037398). Feasibility was assessed across the domains of

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AromatherapyBathsLabor OnsetAdultFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansJapanPilot ProjectsPregnancyaromatherapycomplementary alternative medicinefeasibility studyfootbathpregnant womenstimulation of labor

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PMID40566376
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