Effectiveness of Sacral Massage on Maternal Outcome during First Stage Labour among Primigravida Mothers

Pregnancy and childbirth are universally celebrated events, yet childbirth is one of the most common stressed and painful situation which adversely affect the maternal and child health.

To assess the effectiveness of sacral massage on maternal out come during first stage labour among primigravida mothers.

A one group true experimental post test only design was adopted for the study.

Labour ward at Government Hospital, Cheyyur.

20 Primigravida mothers completed 36 weeks of gestation fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected by simple random sampling.

Sacral massage is application of sacral pressure in lower thoracic to sacrococygeal region, for 15 minutes duration during uterine contraction in every one hour interval. After the intervention pain perception was a assessed with numerical pain intensity scale in the three phases of labour ie latent (3-4cm), active (5-7cm) and transition phase (8-10cm) and maternal outcome was assessed with ongoing assessment tool.

In post test the mean score for the level of pain perception in experimental group was5.85 (SD =1.45) and the control group score was 8.9(SD=0.78) with paired t value of 4.75. In maternal outcome the experimental group mean score was 24 (SD=3.14) and control group maternal outcome score was 7.8(SD=0.92) with paired t value of 28. 49. This showed that the sacral massage was effective in reducing the level of pain perception during labour and promotes maternal out come. There was a statistically no significant association found between the post test score of the sample with their demographic variables.

The findings imply the need for non pharmacological methods of sacral massage was effective management during labour among primigravida mothers.