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Effect of Virtual Care on Postpartum Pain and Episiotomy Healing Among Primiparous Women

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Perineal pain is a major complaint of postpartum females with normal vaginal delivery. Using of new technology in providing health education to postpartum women without space and time limitations is a simple nursing intervention helps in improving healing procedure. Aim: To evaluate the impact of Virtual Care on Postpartum Pain and Episiotomy healing among Primiparous subjects. Design A quasi-experimental study (control- study group) Setting: At the obstetric unit of Banha University Maternity Hospital. Sample: 126 females. Tools: four tools were used: I) a structured interview questionnaire; II Visual Analogue Scale; III The standardized REEDA scales and Women satisfaction Likert scale. Results: The current study illustrated 60.3% of study group has no pain after 7 days of intervention compared to 0% of control group, also 38.7% of control group has severe pain after 7days of delivery compared to 0% in study group. as well 60.3 % of study group had complete episiotomy healing compared to 31.7% of control group ,  There was a high significant direct correlation between reduction of pain intensity and healing process levels among the study group throughout follow up days of the study (p ≤ 0.001).  Conclusion: The current study concluded that application of virtual care proved to be effective in decreasing the postpartum pain intensity and enhancing episiotomy healing process. Recommendations: application of virtual care should be integrated as nursing intervention for women during postpartum period.

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10.21608/ejhc.2024.373597

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virtual care, postpartum pain, episiotomy healing

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Mohammad Emam

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Assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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Ezzat Said

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Lecturer of Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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Salah Shehata

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Assistant professor of Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

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15

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2

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46847

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2024-06-01

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2024-08-13

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2024-06-01

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1,515

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1,527

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Effect of Virtual Care on Postpartum Pain and Episiotomy Healing Among Primiparous Women

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24 Dec 2024