Abstract: Background: Childbirth is universally celebrated and significant moment in women’s life. More than 90% of prenatal anxiety and stress is related to the process of labour. Understanding the suffering of mother and providing safe labour with less pain and anxiety is one of the fundamental principles of modern obstetrics. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of nursing intervention to reduce the anxiety during labour among primigravida mothers.
Methods: A Randomized control trial was carried out among 66 primigravida mothers in Antenatal outpatient department, Labour room in tertiary care hospital, Puducherry by simple random sampling with computerised random numbers and divided into experimental and control group, 33 in each. Pre-test anxiety level was assessed by using modified anxiety scale to both the groups and nursing intervention was given to experimental group and control group were received routine care.
Results: The result showed that in terms of comparing the pre-test and post-test level of anxiety during labour after giving nursing intervention shows statistically highly significant (p<0.001) in experimental group and no significant difference in control group p value (0.052).
Conclusions: Mothers especially primigravida mothers experience anxiety during labour (p<0.001). Thus, the study concluded that nursing interventions were effective in reducing the anxiety level of primigravida during labour.
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