Labour Pain Management: Effect Of Watching Nature Sights

Labour Pain management is a major goal of intrapartum care and non-pharmacologic method could be safe for decreasing it with less complication.Aim: To assess the effect of watching nature sights by Television on first stage of active phase Pain in primiparous.Methods: This Randomized Control Trial was carried out on 60 healthy volunteer primiparous during their active labor phase. Participants randomly allocated into two groups of watching nature sights and control group. Research tools had four main parts of demographic characteristics, medical records of participants, records of usual clinical examination, and Pain Visual Analogue Scale (0-10) which was assessed every 30 minutes. Equality of all characteristics had been checked in the beginning of study. All ethical points were considered and approved by research ethics committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences(TUMS).Results: Average of age was 22.40±3.17 in nature sights group and 23.40±5.05 in control group. Average of pain scores after 60 minutes in nature sights group was 7.73±1.17, in control group was 8.17± 0.95, after 90 minutes in nature sights group was 8.24±1.10, in control group was 8.84±1.04. There was significant difference between two groups after 60 and 90 minutes intervention and nature sights group significantly had less pain (P <0.05).Conclusions: Since watching nature sight have no significant effect after 30 minutes intervention, it has significant effect on active phase of labor pain after 60 and 90 minutes intervention. It is suggested to use this method with other Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) methods for achieving better result.Acknowledgement: This study is part of study, which received grants from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and registered in Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT).

کلیدواژه ها:

Physiologic labor ، Nature Sights ، Pain management ، Pain Visual Analogue Scale ، Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)