Effect of Pain Management Post Cesarean Section on Mothers' Satisfaction

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to assess effect of pain management post cesarean section on mothers' satisfaction. The study design was an intervention study design. It was conducted on postnatal cesarean section room at Ain Shams Maternity University Hospitals. The study sample involved 150 mothers divided into 75 mothers as control group who received post cesarean section hospital routine analgesics for pain relief and their pain assessed at 6, 12 and 18 hours after the surgery and 75 mothers as intervention group who received foot and hand massage for 20 minutes and their pain assessed at 6, 12 and 18 hour after the surgery. Post cesarean section mothers were selected according to the following criteria conscious mother, with intact hand and foot skin and free from arthritis, phlebitis, burn wound, injury, inflammation, eczema, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Four tools were used for data collection, a structured interviewing questionnaire sheet, a numerical rating scale, short form McGill pain questionnaire and likert scale. The results showed that, a significant improvement of pain level among intervention group compared to control group at different assessment time, [P =0.000] and these lead to a high satisfaction regarding pain management among mothers in intervention group than in control group. So, this study is highly recommended designing health educational training program for nurses about foot and hand massage as it is an inexpensive pain relief measure, with no harm to mothers. Also there is need for further study to investigate health team attitude regarding this method: