Women's experience of episiotomy: a qualitative study from China.

BMJ Open
Siyuan HePaul Garner

Abstract

To describe women's experience of episiotomy in urban China. This is a semistructured, indepth interview with women after episiotomy. We analysed transcriptions using thematic analysis in Chinese. Emerging themes were debated in English to finalise interpretation. Two community health centres and four hospitals in Shanghai, China. Purposive sampling of 30 postpartum women who had experienced episiotomy; 25 were primiparous and 4 had deliveries by forceps. We interviewed health providers to complement the data. We identified four main themes: (1) women's views of the procedure vary considerably; (2) pain interferes with daily life for weeks; (3) long-term anxiety is a consequence for some, described as a 'psychological shadow'; and (4) societal norms assume women will not complain. Women receive little information in advance about episiotomy, yet the procedure has a wide range of physical and psychological consequences. This includes long-term anxiety about the damage done to them as women.

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