Investigation and analysis about parturition related knowledge of patient-controlled epidural anal-gesia among pregnant women

Abstract

Objective To know the awareness level of patient-controlled epidual analgesia in labor related knowledge, and to provide evidence for health education, develop a comprehensive intervention program to reduce the rate of cesarean section. Methods Investigation on knowledge of patient controlled epidural analgesia during labor for a total of 400 pregnant women on Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Taiyuan City, MCH Hospital of Shanxi Province by questionnaire. Compared different characteristics of the pregnant women's scores about control epidural analgesia childbirth knowledge by nonparametric test, knowledge score of multi-factor analysis by multiple linear regression analysis. Results The maximum score of pregnant women-controlled epidural analgesia delivery knowledge was 13 , the minimum score was 0, the median score was 4 , range interquartile was 5. Different pregnant women with different age, education level, number of weeks of gestation, pregnancy, family income, and condition of parnatal care had different scores of knowledge of patient-controlled epidural analgesia, the difference was significant,P<0.05.Multiple linear regression analysis showed that : pregnant women's education, gestational age, the average monthly household income can be explained by maternal knowledge score of 61.4% of the variation. Conclusions The level of pregnant women-controlled epidural analgesia childbirth knowledge is low, we need to strengthen the natural childbirth education, and take a variety of modes of propaganda and increase their level of knowledge, enhance confidence of natural childbirth in pregnant women, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing cesarean section rate. Key words: Analgesia, epidual; Parturition; Questionnaires