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A study to assess the effectiveness of prone position on afterpains among postnatal women admitted in postnatal wards in Government Doon Medical College and Hospital Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Background Afterpains are the irregular, spasmodic pains experienced in the lower abdomen between two and four days after delivery. The uterus contracts after delivery as it returns approximately to its pre-pregnancy size and position, resulting in these abdominal cramps.

Methods Quasi experimental, non-equivalent control group pre-test-post-test design was used to conduct the study at govt. Doon medical college and hospital, Dehradun. A total of 70 primi postnatal women were taken by using non-probability purposive sampling technique, following particular inclusion and exclusion criteria. The duration of the data collection was 4 weeks, from June 2023 to July 2023. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse the collected data.

Results The study revealed that the mean±SD of level of pain was 3.00±1.572 in experimental group and 4.89±1.183 in control group. The mean difference was 1.886 and calculated t=5.672 and p=.00001 hence the results is significant at p<0.001 level.

Conclusions It is concluded that after intervention there was significant difference between the pre-test level of afterpains and post-test level of afterpains in experimental group compared to control group.