Effect of Foot Massage on Postpartum Comfort and Pain Level of the Mothers Who Had Vaginal Birth

Launched by EGE UNIVERSITY · Jul 29, 2019

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Background and purpose: This study aims to investigate the effect of foot massage in the postpartum period on the need of receiving analgesic medication after assessing the postpartum comfort and pain status of the mothers who had vaginal delivery.

Materials and methods: In order to keep the number of people in balance between the groups, "block randomization" method which is one of the fixed probability randomization types was preferred. The research was completed with 66 persons, 33 in the study group and 33 in the control group. As data collection tools, a questionnaire, Postpartum Comf...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • primipara mothers (who had their first birth),
• • mothers who had normal vaginal delivery,
• • those who had undergone episiotomy,
• • who were volunteered to participate in the study,
• • who were on the first day of delivery (first 24 hours),
• • who had no complications in the infant and the baby,
• • age of whom ranged from 18 to 35,
• • those who did not apply or receive any other complementary therapy,
• • mothers who did not have any wound, infection or discomfort etc. on their feet,
• • mothers who can read and write
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • mothers with any systemic disease
• • mothers who dislike foot massage during practice
• • early discharge mothers
• • mothers who applied another massage technique
• • mothers who take the analgesic drug unnecessarily