Comparing the impact of acupuncture and pethidine on reducing labor pain

Advanced Biomedical Research
Zahra AllamehMojdeh Ghasemi

Abstract

Generally 50 to 70 percent of women suffer from a severe and unbearable pain during their childbirth. Abnormal fetal heart patterns, an increase of caesarian delivery rate, prolonged labor and low APGAR score in newborn are some of adverse effects of labor pain. Disagreement between different studies regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of acupuncture on labor pain led us to do this study. This is a clinical trial study. Sampling was done randomly in Esfahan, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, based on the subjects' characteristics. Patients were classified into three groups of control, Pethidine and acupuncture (27-30 women in each group). All women with a first and second pregnancy. VAS pain ruler was used as data collection tool. Data were analyzed in SPSS software, and using ANOVA and kruskal-Wallis tests. The average pain score in control group 30 min after intervention was 7.80, while in Pethidine and acupuncture groups respectively were 6.87 and 5.77. Kruskal-Walis test showed that three groups in pain severity had significant difference at this time. The average length of the active phase of labor in Pethidine and acupuncture groups was 175 min while this time in control group was 243 min that ANOVA test showed a significa...Continue Reading

References

Sep 9, 2010·Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica·Anna HjelmstedtUlla Waldenström

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Jan 7, 2016·Acupuncture in Medicine : Journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society·Qiu-Yan JiangXiao-Tao Feng
Sep 15, 2019·Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics·Katarina Kličan JaićAndro Košec
Oct 5, 2015·Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies·Nasrin AsadiMaryam Kasraeian

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