The Effects of Enhancing Coping with Labor Pain Program on Pain Levels and Pain Coping Behaviors in Primiparous Women

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research with a two-group posttest-only design aimed to determine the effects of coping with labor pain enhancement program on pain levels and pain coping behaviors among primiparous women in Buddhachinaraj Hospital, Phitsanulok. Sixty samples were selected by the purposive sampling method then thirty women were assigned to the control group and thirty women were assigned to the experimental group. The experimental group received a coping with labor pain enhancement program and the control group received routine nursing care. The research instruments included 1) a demographic questionnaire, 2) the coping with labor pain enhancement program, 3) the numerical pain scale with a reliability of .86, and 4) the pain-coping behavior observation form with a reliability of .85. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, Chi-Square test, and independent t-test. The study results showed that the experimental group had significantly lower pain score levels than those in the control group in the latent phase, active phase, and transitional phase (p< .001). The experimental group had significantly pain-coping behaviors better than those in the control group in all phases (p < .01).