Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REALITY THERAPY ON PAIN AMONG POST LSCS PRIMI

Vetriselvi. K, Dr. Latha Venkatesan, Dhanalakshmi. V

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Background: Giving birth to a new life is the most painful experience in a woman’s life, though she experiences the happiness later with newborn, In recent days LSCS became very common due to various reason including mothers wish as well as unwillingness to take risk by health care professionals. The women who underwent LSCS suffer from lots of physical symptoms caused by incision among which pain is the major symptoms. Pain is an unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body. The fact is that the experience of pain after giving birth of the baby is same in both normal as well as caesarean deliveries. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of virtual Reality Therapy on pain among post LSCS primi mothers. Design: True experimental research design. Setting: Selected Hospital, Chennai. Participants: Sixty post LSCS primi mothers, fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected by systematic random sampling technique. Method: The study was conducted with 60 post LSCS primi mothers. Out of which 30 mothers were in control group and 30 mothers were in experimental group. Pre and post test assessment was done by using tools such as Demographic variable proforma, obstetric variable proforma, McCaffery Beebe pain rating scale , Rating scale on Level of acceptability of virtual reality therapy. Results: The collected data was statistically analyzed and findings revealed that the virtual reality therapy was effective in reduction of pain during post operative period. The difference between the control (M=5.2, SD=1.21) and experimental (M=2.9, SD=0.82) group on these parameters was found statistically significant with ‘t’ value of 9.34 at (P<0.001).Conclusion: Virtual reality therapy is a simple, easy to implement and most acceptable non pharmacological method to reduce the pain among post LSCS primi mothers.

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EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REALITY THERAPY ON PAIN AMONG POST LSCS PRIMI, Vetriselvi.K, Dr. Latha Venkatesan, Dhanalakshmi.V INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2020

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