نوع مقاله : اصیل پژوهشی
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1 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد مامایی، دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
2 استاد گروه مامایی و بهداشت باروری، مرکز تحقیقات مامایی و بهداشت باروری، دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
3 عضو هیئت مدیره انجمن علمی طب سوزنی ایران، تهران، ایران.
4 استادیار گروه آمار زیستی، دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
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Introduction: Postpartum pain is one of the most common complications of the postpartum period. Today there is a special tendency towards the use of complementary therapy. The present study was conducted with aim to determine the effect of hand reflexology on postpartum pain.
Methods: This single-blind randomized clinical trial study was conducted in 2023 on 99 research units after natural childbirth in the postpartum ward of Bent Al-Hoda Hospital in Bojnourd and Javad Al-Aemmeh Hospital in Jajarm. The subjects were randomly assigned to three groups of 33 people: real intervention, sham intervention, and routine care. In the real intervention and sham intervention groups, the intervention was performed by the researcher in the cardiac, solar plexus, pituitary, and uterine reflex areas of the hands. The routine care group only received routine postpartum care. Data was collected using a demographic and obstetric information questionnaire, a numerical numerical rating scale, and a timer. Data were analyzed by SPSS software (version 24) and statistical tests of analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis, Chi-square, Fisher's exact, and generalized estimating model. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: In the intra-group comparison, the mean intensity of post-partum pain decreased in the three groups (p<0.001). The mean intensity of post-partum pain in the real intervention was 3.58 units lower than in the routine care and in the sham intervention was 2.06 units lower than in the routine care (P<0.001) and in the real intervention was 1.52 units lower than in the sham intervention (P<0.001). The use of analgesics in the real intervention was lower than the other two groups (P=0.001).
Conclusion: Hand reflexology can be recommended alongside drug treatments due to reducing post-partum pain and absence of complications.
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