2024, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A

Introduction: Labor pain is the rhythmic pain of increasing severity and frequency due to contraction of the uterus at childbirth. Even though, delivery is a natural phenomenon, it has been demonstrated that the accompanying pain is considered severe/extreme in more than half of the cases. Supported labour by midwives without using pharmacological pain relief plays a vital role in managing labour pain. To aid in providing information to the mothers, the health care professionals such as nurses and midwives must have adequate knowledge regarding these alternative methods.

Materials and Methods: A quasi experimental approach - one group pre-test post-test design was used in this study. 50 staff nurses who met with inclusion criteria were selected using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants. The data was collected using self-administered questionnaire comprised of demographic variables and knowledge questionnaire. After pretest the self-instructional module on selected alternative approaches to labour pain relief was given and posttest was conducted after a week using same questionnaire tool.

Result and Conclusion: The improvement mean score for overall knowledge score was 7.38 with the ‘t’ value of 9.6840 and found to be significant in the level of p<0.05. Hence it is evident that the self- instructional module is effective in improving the knowledge of staff nurses.