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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
The effectiveness of ‘
Pain Digital Acupressure (Pda)
’ to reduce the labor pain and the length of second
stage during labor
Setyowati Brotosudirdjo*, R Koestoer**
and
Heni S***
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
T
he Maternal mortality rate in Indonesia is still the highest in the Asian countries. One of the reasons is due to prolong labor
that is influenced by anxiety and fear of mother during labor. Anxiety and pain is very connected and influence its other.
Due to anxiety mother feel more pain and it will disturb the labor process. Increasing catecholamine hormone will disturb
the uterine contraction that will be increase the stimulation of respiratory an decrease the CO2 in mother and fetal. This will
make the fetal oxygenation decrease and baby will in danger. This in turn will influence the wellness of mother and fetal. The
aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of Pain Digital Acupressure (PDA) to reduce labor pain and the length of
second stage during labor. The design is a quasi experimental study, that involve 76 women during normal labor 9 38 women
in the intervention group and 38 other women in the control group) .The result shown that there was a significant different
of the labor pain scale after using the PDA in the first 30 minutes, second 30 minutes and the third 30 minutes during latent
stage labor with p values of 0.000 different with pain scale before using PDA. The most effective of using PDA was the first 30
minutes which decreased 1.79. Using of PDA also made faster the length of second stage of labor ( Intervention group: 14.36
minutes and control groups were 22.50 minutes, and the significancy was p=0.00) . It is strongly recommended for women
during labor using PDA to influence the labor pain and the length of labor that in turn will reduce the mortality and morbidity
of mother and child.
watisetyowati@yahoo.com.auor
wati123@ui.ac.idSetyowati Brotosudirdjo et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061