Non-Pharmacological Strategies on Pain Relief During Labor

Abstract

Most women suffer from severe and intolerable pain of labor. Nowadays, the use of analgesics for pain relief in childbirth is rarely used due to maternal and neonatal complications and the non-drug and complementary medicine methods are increasing. This study aimed to investigate the non-drug methods of pain relief in physiological labor. In this descriptive study, 308 mothers randomly selected as candidates for natural vaginal delivery. For data collection, standard questionnaire of non-pharmacological methods of childbirth pain relief was used. Data were analyzed using the software SPSS18. According the collected data, the mean age of the 308 nurses in the study was 27.943.21 and the average age of the 308 patients in the study was 26.805.38. 54.5% of the nurses in the first phase of childbirth used therapeutic massage and (54.4%) used aromatherapy of pain relief for 80 people (26%), and the method of breathing pattern was performed on 60 people (19.6). According to the above findings, using massage, aromatherapy and breathing pattern were cost-effective intervention strategies that can effectively be useful in reducing labor pain and creating a positive attitude to it.