Effectiveness of normal saline in healing of episiotomy wound among postnatal mothers at Government Hospital For Women & Children, Chennai

BACKGROUND: To assess the effectiveness of normal saline in healing episiotomy wound among postnatal mothers. Pregnancy and child birth are special events in women‘s lives. Episiotomy continues to be a frequently used procedure in Obstetrics and Gynaecology despite little scientific support for its routine use. 60 postnatal mothers were selected in Govt. Hospital for Women & Children. METHOD: True experimental design was utilized and data collected by random Sampling method by using the structured interview method. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: In pre test mean value of episiotomy wound healing score in experimental group is 13.30 and the SD score was 1.06 were as in control group is 13.63 and the SD score .93 respectively. The calculated ”t” value is 1.29 P=0.19, this difference is small and it is not statistically significant. In post test mean value of episiotomy wound healing score in experimental group is 0.93 and the SD score was .87 were as in control group is 4.53 and the SD score 1.93 respectively. The calculated “t” value is 9.33 P=0.001, this difference is statistically significant. Statistically there is a difference between experimental group and control. Assess the effectiveness of normal saline of healing episiotomy wound of experimental and control group was (82.5-60.6) =21.9% . CONCLUSION: Application of normal saline in healing of episiotomy wound is very effective among postnatal mothers. This difference was associated in experimental and control group