NCT06149598Completed
Coughing at Time of Cervical Biopsy
Pain Reduction by Forced Coughing During Colposcopy Guided Cervical Biopsies: a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Mar 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To investigate the effect of coughing as an intervention to reduce pain in colposcopy guided biopsy.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- First submitted
- 19 Nov 2023
- Start date
- 2 Jan 2024
- Primary completion date
- 30 Apr 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Zydolab - Institute of Cytology and Immune Cytochemistry
- Diseases
- Cervical cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06149598
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 30
- From 2 Jan 2024 to the primary completion date, 30 Apr 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Chronic use of pain medications or psychotropic medications or other medications that may have an influence on the sensation of pain
Other illness
- Vaginal bleeding at the time of examination
- known anxiety disorders or depressive disorders
- Patients with a chronic or acute illness that influences the perception of pain or lead to permanent pain due to the disease itself
- psychosomatic illnesses
Other
- Performing only one biopsy or more than two biopsies
- Performing an endocervical curettage (biopsy on the endocervix)
- inadequate colposcopy
- Cervix uteri cannot be fully visualized
- Pregnancy
- Patients with insufficient German language skills
- Treatments already carried out on the cervix uteri
Who the study is looking for
- Completed 18 years of age
- written informed consent
- first colposcopy
- Clinically indicated colposcopy in case of an abnormal PAP smear or screening result and/or clinical abnormalities on the cervix uteri
- Necessity to take exactly two biopsies
Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zydolab - Institute of Cytology and Immune Cytochemistry Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dortmund | Germany | Unknown status |
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