Effectiveness of circular hip massage on labour pain during first stage of labour among primi gravid women at selected hospital, Salem.

“A Study was conducted to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Circular Hip Massage on Labour Pain during First Stage of Labour among Primigravid Women, at Selected Hospital, Salem.” A Quantitative evaluative approach with Quasi experimental time series design was adopted. Non probability convenience sampling technique was used to select 60 primi gravid women among which 30 were assigned to experimental group and 30 were assigned to control group during first stage of labour at Salem Poly Clinic and Vijaya hospital, Salem. Structured interview schedule was used to collect data and Numerical Pain Intensity Scale was used to assess the level of labour pain. Circular hip massage was given for 15 minutes every one hour interval for 4 observations and level of pain was assessed before and after each interventions. The collected data was analyzed and findings shows that, in experimental and control group 11(36.7%) and 15(50%) of primigravid women were in the age group of 26-30 yrs , 7(23.3%) and 8(26.7%) completed their higher secondary education, 17(56.7%) and 17(56.7%) of women’s were employed, 14(46.7%) were sedentary workers, 18(60%) of them were moderate workers, 17(56.7%) were in 39 weeks of gestation, 19(63.3%) of mothers were in 40 weeks of gestation. The mean difference on level of labour pain in experimental group values were 2.00, 2.33, 2.16, and 2.33, where as in control group values were 0.23, 0.13, 0.06 and 0.16. In experimental group the calculated ‘t’ value on level of labour pain before and after circular hip massage was 15.76, 16.85, 25.73 and 26.65 which is significant at p<0.05 level. Hence H1 was retained. In experimental group the pre and posttest mean score was 9.90±0.30, 7.56±0.50 whereas in control group the pre and posttest mean score was 8.83±0.64, 9.00±0.58 respectively. So there was a significant difference in pre and post test score on level of labour pain in experimental and control group at p<0.05 level. Hence H2 was retained. The chi-square test revealed that hypotheses H3 was rejected for both experimental and control group except for occupation(χ2=6.21) and weeks of gestation(χ2=6.21) in experimental group at p