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. 2018 Aug 6;2018(8):CD005943. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005943.pub5

Yassaee 2014.

Methods Design: RCT
Recruitment method: through assessment of women presented to the hospital
Method of randomisation: unclear
Setting: Taleghani Hospital affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Participants Inclusion: pregnant women with threatened abortion. The presence of singleton pregnancy and detection of fetal heart activity, besides gestational age of < 20 weeks was verified by U/S
Exclusion: women were excluded if they had reaction to Cyclogest, repeated abortions, multiple gestation, absence of fetus or fetal heart tone, uterine anomaly or fetal anomaly
Particpants randomised: 60 women
Interventions Intervention group: 400 mg of vaginal progesterone suppository (Cyclogest) each day until their bleeding stopped in < 1 week
Control group: no treatment
Outcomes Successful delivery
Miscarriage rates
Pain relief
Notes Journal: Journal of Reproduction and Infertility
Year of publication: 2014
Country: Iran
Income status of the country: upper middle‐income
Source of funding: not mentioned
Conflict of interest: no conflicts
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk No details on random allocation
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Unclear
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk There was no placebo, so participants were not blind
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Assessors were blinded
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk No loss of participants to follow‐up
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All the prespecified outcomes were addressed
Other bias Low risk No apparent other risk of bias

APH: antepartum haemorrhage; LBW: low birthweight; RCT: randomised controlled trial; U/S: ultrasound