Brief summary describing the background
and objectives of the trial
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Hysterosalpingography is the primary investigative modality of choice for the evaluation of the uterine cavity, fallopian tubes, and adjacent peritoneal cavity. It is easy, has minimal complications, affordable, readily available, reliable, and does not require anesthesia. This investigative modality has a sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of 88%, 87%, 71%, and 94%, respectively. Despite these advantages, its major shortcoming is pain.
The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to compare the effectiveness of diclofenac and placebo in pain reduction when undergoing hysterosalpingography in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria.
This randomised controlled trial will be conducted at the radiology departments and infertility clinics of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa and Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, both in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Three hundred and eighty infertile women undergoing hysterosalpingography will be enrolled in the study. They will be assigned into two groups by computer-generated randomisation. Women in Group I will have intramuscular diclofenac 75 mg (3 ml), while the women in Group II will have placebo with 3 ml of water for injection. Following adequate counseling, written informed consent will be obtained from all the women. The allocating team and the team performing the hysterosalpingography will be different, to help prevent selection bias.
Infertile women referred for hysterosalpingography, and women that gave consent and completely filled the consent/questionnaire form will be included in the study.
Exclusion criteria included abnormal uterine/vaginal bleeding before the procedure, on-going menstruation, pregnancy, discharge on inspection of the cervix, cervical stenosis/cervical pathology, evidence of pelvic inflammatory disease, previous history of contrast hypersensitivity, history of allergy to diclofenac, and all patients that declined consent. |