Quality of Life for Women Suffering From Pain Regard Cesarean Section | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 8, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 91-101 PDF (349.56 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.26757 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abeer Mohammed Yousef Ahamed; Shadia Hamido Mehaseb; Sahar Mossa Soliman | ||
| Maternity & Gynecological Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: the present study aimed to assess quality of life for women suffering from pain regard cesarean section Design: A Descriptive study design Setting: This study was conducted at postpartum unit at Ain Shams University Hospital. Sample: purposive sample included 200 primary cesarean section women. Tool of data collection: interviewing questionnaire sheet, visual analogue scale, and quality of life sheet. Result: the mean age of the studied women was 26.23±4.01 years. The current result reveled that more than half of the studied women had severe pain post delivery within 20 minutes,2 hours,4 hours and 6 hours of operation respectively. Moreover, less than half of studied women had low level in physical domain while,more than half had moderate level in psychological domain. In addition, more than half of them had moderate level in social domain. There was statistically significance difference between socio-demographic characteristics and level of total score of quality of lifeConclusion: women were young age, pain score was severe, the studied women had low physical, moderate psychological and social quality of life Recommendation: Developing awareness program for enhancing woman's knowledge regarding improving quality of life post cesarean section. Further researches on, identify factors affecting quality of life for cesarean section during postpartum period. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| cesarean section; Postpartum; quality of life; Pain | ||
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