Study to assess the effectiveness of music therapy during the first stage of labor in reducing the level of pain among mothers in labor room at selected maternity hospitals in the city.

Abstract

Labor pain is considered one of the most intense forms of pain experienced by women. Effective non-pharmacological methods such as music therapy have been shown to help in relaxation, distraction, and pain reduction during the first stage of labor. To find out the effectiveness of music therapy by comparing level of labor pain in experimental and control group among mothers in labor room at selected maternity hospital in the city. True experimental design- posttest only design. The sample will consist of laboring mothers selected through Simple random sampling technique. The sample size consists of 60, in this 30-sample experimental group Sample, 30 sample Control group The intervention group will receive music therapy during the first stage of labor, while the control group will not receive music threapy. Pain levels will be measured using a standard Verbal rating scale. Data will be analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. It is expected that mothers who receive music therapy will report a significantly lower level of pain during the first stage of labor compared to those who has not receive intervention of music threapy. After the detailed analysis, this study leads to the following the labor pain of mothers is not reduced 100%. There was significant decrease in the level of labor pain of subjects after the introduction of music therapy. To find the effectiveness of music therapy paired „t‟ test was applied and t value was calculated, posttest score significantly higher at 0.05 level than that of pretest score. Thus, it was concluded that music therapy on reduce level of labor pain was found effective.

There is association of knowledge score in gravida, antenatal checkup, state you pain, nature of uterine contraction. And there is no association in the age, educational status, religion, occupation, residential area Hence, based on the above findings, it was concluded that the written prepared material by the investigator in the form of music therapy helped the mothers to reduce level of labor pain.