A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Prone Position on Afterpains among Postnatal Mothers at Selected Hospital, Chennai
Journal Title: Journal of Nurse Midwifery and Maternal Health - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Despite the fact that pregnancy and delivery are normal physiological phenomena, it involves varieties of changes in physical, physiological as well as emotional aspects of the mothers. Pain after birth is not quite the same as pain after surgery or the kind of pain we feel when we suffer from an injury. There are several causes of pain after birth and one among them is after birth contraction which is normally stronger and more uncomfortable for mothers for the first few days postpartum. To determine the effect of prone position on afterpains among postnatal mothers, an quantitative approach a randomised clinical trial on 60 postnatal mothers (30 in study and 30 in control group) who met the inclusion criteria selected by simple random sampling was conducted at C.S.I Kalyani Multispecitality Hospital, Chennai. Subjects were assessed for their pre test level of after pains using by visual analogue scale. Prone postion was given to the postnatal mothers in 3 successive sessions for 20 minutes each for the study group. Followed by the Intervention, the post test level of after pains in both the study and control group was assessed by the visual analogue scale. Results showed that a very high statistical significant difference in the post test level of after pain between the study group and control group at (t=6.793, p< 0.001***). Study concludes that prone position was found to be effective in reduction of after pains.
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K. Latha
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