American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOOT REFLEXOLOGY ON POST CAESAREAN PAIN AMONG POST CAESAREAN MOTHERS

Sabitha Anto V

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Assess, Effectiveness, Foot Reflexology, post Caesarean Pain, Post Caesarean Mothers

Post caesarean section client is suffered from pain due to operative trauma. The sensation of the pain state can be reduced by pain management. It is not only of pharmacological remedy but also non pharmacological treatment. Foot reflexology is one way of non pharmacological suitable method to reduce pain intensity of the women. The present study is carried out to assess the effectiveness of foot reflexology on post caesarean pain among post caesarean mother . Objectives :1. To assess the level of post caesarean pain among the post caesarean mothers before and after intervention in both experimental and control group. 2. To assess the effectiveness of foot reflexology in reducing the post caesarean pain among post caesarean mothers. 3. To find out the association between the level of pain with the selected demographic variables such as age, income of the family, occupation, Gravida, para, pregnancy associated disease and previous history of caesarean section. Methodology: The research design use for the study is true experimental (two group pretest and post test control group design. The participants were selected by using simple randomized sampling techniques. A sample of 30 caesarean women are selected for the study. Among them 15 allotted for experimental group and 15 for control group. After caesarean, the women’s pain assessed by using the visual analogue scale on the first day. Foot reflexology administered to the experimental group on the first post operative day. The foot reflexology continued up to 3rd day for 15 minutes once daily morning along with routine care and the control group did not receive foot reflexology. On 4th day post test level of pain was assessed by using visual analogue scale for both experimental and control group. Conclusion: The data was analyzed by using “t” test. The results showed that the mean pre test score was 7.26 and mean post test score was 6.35 in experimental group and the mean pre test score was7.35 and post test score was 7.39 in control group. It shows that there was a significant reduction in the post caesarean pain after Foot Reflexology. The findings showed that foot reflexology was effective in reducing the pain level among the post caesarean women