Nurses’ Knowledge About using Hydrotherapy as A Non-Pharmacological Pain Relieve Method in Labor and its Barriers to be Used
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Nurses’ Knowledge About using Hydrotherapy as A Non-Pharmacological Pain Relieve Method in Labor and its Barriers to be Used,ENTISAR M. YOUNESS and MANAL F. MOUSTAFA
Abstract
Introduction: Hydrotherapy is an effective, alternative intervention that can be used by care providers as a nonphar-macological pain relief method to help laboring women cope with labor. A wide variety of pain relief measures are available to women in labor.
Aim of the Study: This study assessed nurses' knowledge about the use of hydrotherapy as a nonpharmacologic pain-relief techniques during labor and identify the barriers of hydrotherapy to be used in Women's Health Center, Assiut University Hospitals, Egypt.
Research Design: Descriptive study design was utilized in this study.
Subjects and Methods: All nurses who work in obstetrics department, Women's Health Center, Assiut University Hos-pitals were included in the study. They are all 120 nurses.
This study provides nurses knowledge of the state of hydrotherapy among and the science of the effects of hydro-therapy with labor and delivery. The physiologic mechanism, benefits, practice implications, and barriers of the use of hydrotherapy during labor all are assessed by the nurses during implementation of this study through a structured self admin-istrative questionnaire.
Results: This study provides nurses knowledge about using hydrotherapy during labor. They showed that approxi-mately three quarter (73.3%) of the participant nurses' knowl-edge were adequate, while (26.7) of nurses had inadequate knowledge about the use of hydrotherapy in labor. Nurses encounter that hospital policy (100%) followed by environ-mental factors (52%) are the major barriers to the use of hydrotherapy in labor. Effort required for hydrotherapy (48%) and human resources (41%) are indicated to be equivalent barrier of the use of hydrotherapy in labor. Their knowledge represented (26.7%) and not considered to be a major contrib-uting barrier to the use of hydrotherapy during labor.
Conclusion: This study concluded that providing hydro-therapy requires a supportive environment, adequate nursing staffing, applied polices and collaborative relationships among the health care team.