Trial no.:
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PACTR202204689887542 |
Date of Approval:
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06/04/2022 |
Trial Status:
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Retrospective registration - This trial was registered after enrolment of the first participant |
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TRIAL DESCRIPTION |
Public title
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Comparison of paracetamol and diclofenac as prophylactic analgesics during hysterosalpingography in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria: a randomized controlled trial. |
Official scientific title |
Comparison of paracetamol and diclofenac as prophylactic analgesics during hysterosalpingography in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria: a randomized controlled trial. |
Brief summary describing the background
and objectives of the trial
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Infertility is the inability of a couple to achieve pregnancy despite 12 months of adequate and regular unprotected sexual intercourse.
Hysterosalpingography is the non-invasive fluoroscopic evaluation of the female genital tract following injection of a radio-opaque medium through the cervical canal. The major drawback of hysterosalpingography is pain.
Various analgesic agents have been proposed for pain relief during hysterosalpingography, including systemic drugs such paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and opioids, application of topical analgesics to the cervix, intrauterine analgesic instillation, and paracervical block.
Therefore, the objective of this randomised controlled trial is to compare the effectiveness of paracetamol and diclofenac for pain relief in infertile women undergoing hysterosalpingography in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria.
This randomised controlled trial is conducted at the radiology departments and infertility clinics of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa and Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri.
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 paracetamol 600 mg, while the women in Group II will have intramuscular diclofenac 75 mg. Following adequate counseling, written informed consent will be obtained from all the women.
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 paracetamol and diclofenac. |
Type of trial |
RCT |
Acronym (If the trial has an acronym then please provide) |
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Disease(s) or condition(s) being studied |
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Sub-Disease(s) or condition(s) being studied |
Fertility-female |
Purpose of the trial |
Diagnosis / Prognosis |
Anticipated trial start date |
03/05/2021 |
Actual trial start date |
03/05/2021 |
Anticipated date of last follow up |
29/04/2022 |
Actual Last follow-up date |
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Anticipated target sample size (number of participants) |
380 |
Actual target sample size (number of participants) |
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Recruitment status |
Recruiting |
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