Application of delivery ball combined with touching during delivery among primipara women
Abstract：Objective To explore the effect of application of delivery ball combined with touching during de -livery among primipara .Methods Four hundred primipara women who would deliver had head position without preg-nancy complications , and had the uterus cervix at 3 cm wide were recruited in the observation .The women were allo-cated to the observation ( n=200 ) or the control group ( n=200 ) according to the sequence of admission to the hospi-tal.The primiparas in the observation group received delivery ball combined with touching and those in the control group only received delivery ball .The labor time , the degree of pain , the mode of delivery , the amount of bleeding within 2 hours after delivery and neonatal apgar scores were observed in the two groups .Results The time of the first stage and the total stage of labor , and the degree of pain in the observation group were statistically different in com-parison to the control group ( P<0.05 ) .However , there was no statistical difference in delivery mode , the time of the second and the third stage of labor , the amount of bleeding within 2 hours after delivery and neonatal apgar scores between the two groups ( P>0.05 ) .Conclusion Application of delivery ball combined with touching can relieve pain, promote the progress of labor , and shorten the time of stage of labor among primipara women , and it is worthy of clinical application .
Keywords：Delivery ballTouchingPrimipara
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 822-825 )