Nonpharmacological Method for Relief of Episiotomy

Launched by KOCAELI UNIVERSITY · Dec 12, 2022

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Aim: This study was planned to examine the effect of acupuncture on perineal pain after episiotomy in the early postpartum period.

Research hypothesis:

H0: Acupressure application applied to pregnant women who underwent episiotomy in the postpartum period has no effect on reducing the level of perineal pain.

H1: Acupressure application applied to pregnant women who underwent episiotomy in the postpartum period reduces the level of perineal pain.

Type of Study: This study was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study.

Research Universe The population of the study consisted ...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Elementary school or higher education
• • 18 years and over,
• • Primiparous,
• • Episiotomy was applied,
• • Having a normal delivery in the hospital where the study was conducted,
• • Able to speak and understand Turkish,
• • No medical treatment to affect the pain,
• • Perineal pain score is above 4 according to VAS (Visual analog scale),
• • Participants who voluntarily agree to participate in the study will be included in the study.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Does not have sufficient mental health to fill out the questionnaire,
• • Experiencing postpartum complications (bleeding, infection, etc.),
• • With impaired tissue integrity in the area to be applied,
• • Having genital infection
• • Heir in perineum,
• • Taking painkillers in the last 6 hours,
• • Smoking or using alcohol
• • Pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention to reduce postpartum perineal pain,
• • Excluding episiotomy in a different region of the perineum, In addition, those who want to leave the research at any stage of the research will be excluded from the research.

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