hai Tahereh

is it the support of women by nurses or partners or any other care taker?. i just wanted to send u a literature which i came across hope it helps you.

Hej Tahereh,

Continuous Emotional Support During Labor in a US Hospital

A Randomized Controlled Trial

John Kennell, MD; Marshall Klaus, MD; Susan McGrath, PhD; Steven Robertson, PhD; Clark Hinkley, MD

JAMA. 1991;265(17):2197-2201. doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03460170051032.

Kenell and Klaus are pioniers in this topic.

A Randomized Control Trial of Continuous Support in Labor by a Lay Doula

Della A. Campbell, Marian F. Lake, Michele Falk andJeffrey R. Backstrand

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing

Volume 35, Issue 4, pages 456–464, July 2006

you'll find more about the topic

Meike,

I’m last-named author on the paper you requested, and not in a position to send you this. You should contact the lead author Professor Jenny Fenwick (now at: [email protected]) or Professor Caroline Homer ([email protected]).

Regards,

Andrew Symon

Hi Tahereh

There is a Cochrane systematic review on this.

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD003766/continuous-support-for-women-during-childbirth. It included high-quality randomized trials.

I found the paper on this subject by Hodnett et al very interesting. You may want to check this at: Effectiveness of nurses as providers of birth labor support in North American hospitals - A randomized controlled trial. Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002. 288(11): p. 1373-1381