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Table 1 Description of study variables

From: Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor and childbirth care practices in Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Obstetric practices during labor and delivery

 

Survey

 

Birth in Belo Horizonte

Childbirth and breastfeeding in children of SARS-CoV-2 infected mothers

Variables

  

Useful practices that should be encouraged

 

Providing food to parturient women

Interview

Medical Record

Allowing parturient women to have freedom to move

Interview

Medical Record

Use of Partogram (tool used to assess labor evolution)

Medical Record

Medical Record

Adopting Non-Pharmacological Methods (NPM) for pain relief

Interview

Medical Record

Harmful or ineffective practices that must be eliminated

Enema

Medical Record

Medical Record

Perineal shaving

Medical Record

Medical Record

“Laying parturient women on their back with their legs raised” - position at delivery time

Interview

Medical Record

Kristeller maneuver

Interview and medical Record

Medical Record

Practices inappropriately used at Labor and delivery

Amniotomy

Medical Record

Medical Record

Oxytocin infusion misused

Medical Record

Medical Record

Analgesia

Medical Record

Medical Record

Episiotomy

Medical Record

Medical Record