What do the pregnant women in our hospital know and think about complementary medicine methods in childbirth?

Year 2023, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 33 - 38, 01.01.2023

Nefise Nazlı Yenigül , Elif Yuce Bilgin

Abstract

Objectives:Pregnancy is a very special and challenging process for women. Especially in the third trimester, as the birth approaches, some concerns may increase. Especially normal birth can scare many women. Since women do not dominate the birth process in their first pregnancies, they have some concerns for both their baby and themselves.In recent years, complementary medicine methods have been used to support normal birth and for the comfort of the patient. In this study, we evaluated the knowledge and thoughts of pregnant women hospitalized in the delivery room about complementary medicine methods in childbirth.
Methods:This prospective survey study was conducted at Bursa Yüksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital from 01 March 2022 to 30 April 2022. The study consists of 57 patients aged 18-40 who gave birth in our hospital. Consent was obtained from all participants and archived before starting the study.
Results:Although only nine pregnants heard about complementary medicine methods in childbirth; 100% of the patients thought that these techniques would reduce the mother's stress during childbirth. While 54.4% of these patients were in pain, they were trying to take deep breaths as breathing and relaxation exercises, while 21.1% were praying. None of the patients wanted to try the hypnosis method because they thought it was too scary. 68.4% of the patients thought that relaxing music in labor and 63.2% of them thought that aromatherapy would be successful. In addition, none of the patients had heard of homeopathy.
Conclusions:Complementary medicine methods such as aromatherapy, relaxing music therapy or lumbar massage will increase the place of these methods in childbirth, as pregnant women demand it as much as doctors. We can achieve this by providing training on complementary medicine to patients from the early stages of their pregnancy. The increase in the number of patients receiving support from complementary medicine at birth will also diversify the scientific studies that can be done on this subject. In this way, we may have the opportunity to re-evaluate complementary medicine methods with the scientific data we have.

Keywords

complementary medicine, labor, aromateraphy

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