Paper Title
A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDICATED AND NON-MEDICATED SITZ BATH ON EPISIOTOMY WOUND HEALING AMONG POSTNATAL MOTHERS AT, MGMH, HYDERABADAbstract
Assess the wound healing level among postnatal mothers. Assess the effectiveness of Beta dine in episiotomy among postnatal mothers. Compare the level of wound healing in Beta dine wash and normal saline. Associate the level of wound healing in experimental group with selected demographic variables. Hypothesis: there is a significant increased level of wound healing episiotomy with Beta dine wash among postnatal mothers. Methodology: Quantitative approach- Pre- experimental design was adopted. Sample size was 100 (50 samples in Beta dine wash and 50 samples in normal saline), assigned by simple random sampling technique method was used. Data was collected using demographic variables and the level of wound healing to compare the Beta dine wash and normal saline episiotomy postnatal mothers Beta dine wash was given on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and in the alternative days normal saline was given Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Beta dines wash for one week 10-20mins for one group and normal saline for another group Findings: In Beta dines wash the mean value for pre-test is 29.3 and standard deviation was 8.71. And post-test is 14.56 and standard deviation 9.92. Wilcox on rank sum test was Z=
-6.154, P- <0.00001, it will be significant and positive. In normal saline the mean value for pre-test is28.7 and standard deviation was 8.78. And post-test is 29.88 and standard deviation 9.01. Wilcox on rank sum test was Z= -6.1105, W-637.5, P-< 0.00001. Conclusion: The findings proved that Butadiene wash is more effective than normal saline to reduce the wound healing of episiotomy among postnatal mothers.
KEYWORDS : Beta dine Wash, Normal Saline, Wound Healing, Episiotomy and Postnatal Mother