ABSTRACT
Delivery is one of the most important events in a woman's life with a lifelong remembrance. The negative aspects of this event may have diverse emotional effects for the woman and her family. Therefore, facilitating labor has been recently gained great concern and labor satisfaction has been considered as a significant indicator in quality care of maternal units. This clinical trial was conducted to determine the effects of massage on satisfaction of primiparous women delivering at Ayatollah Shaheed Beheshti Hospital in 2005. 75 women were randomly selected and divided into 3 groups namely massage, support, and routine-care. Effleurage back massage lasted 20 minutes was given to the experimental group in 3 dilatation stages during and after contractions. Interventions including support and routine care in the other two groups also lasted 20 minutes. An observation checklist and information forms were used for data collection and content validity was used for validating them. Results showed that rates of satisfaction in the 3 groups had significant difference with no significant difference between support and routine-care group. The difference of satisfaction, however, between the massage group and routine-care group as well as support group was significant. According to the findings, it seems that massage has some effect on delivery satisfaction of primiparous women