American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HOT APPLICATION ON DIMPLE OF VENOUS ON REDUCTION OF INTENSITY OF LABOUR PAIN AMONG PRIMIGRAVID MOTHERS

Mudra Titus and Sr. Ancy Jose

mudratitus10@gmail.com

Effectiveness, hot application on dimple of venous, labour pain, primigravid mothers.

Pain during labour is different for every woman. Although labour is often thought of as one of the painful events in human experience, it ranges widely from woman to woman and from pregnancy to pregnancy and heat therapy benefits by helping to relieve muscle spasms, increases circulation of blood lymph which benefits cellular nutrition, oxygenation and detoxification and has a sedating and relaxing effect. The quantitative study aims to evaluate the intensity of labour pain, effectiveness of hot application on labour pain among primigravid mothers and to find out association between the pre test mean score of labour pain with selected demographic variables. The study was conducted at Government Victoria Hospital, Kollam using pre test post test control group design. The data was obtained using interview schedule and numerical pain scale from 60 samples, 30 each in experimental and control group, analysed and interpreted considering the objectives and hypothesis of the study using descriptive and inferential statistics. Among experimental group 16.67% had moderate pain and 83.33% had severe pain whereas in control group 26.67% had moderate pain and 73.33% had severe pain. However after the post test 60% of experimental group had moderate pain and 40% had severe pain. Meanwhile in control group 6.67% had moderate pain and 93.33% had severe pain. This shows that there is decrease in intensity of labour pain after the hot application on dimple of venous. The calculated paired „t? value for post test was 6.22** which is greater than the table value 2.00 at 0.05 level of significance. This shows that hot application on dimple of venous was effective in reduction of intensity of labour pain. The chi-square values related to time of conception after marriage and type of family showed significant association between pre test scores of labour pain with selected demographic variables