Influence of maternal education on the incidence of pelvic floor injury. Study Sanintaria Area "Hospital Virgen del Rocio"
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Authors
1Lourdes de la Pisa Latorre, 1Javier Idígoras Hurtado, 2José Manuel Ruiz Plaza
Position
1EIR. Unidad Docente de Matronas de Sevilla.2Profesor-Tutor. Unidad Docente de Matronas de Sevilla.
Contact address
Unidad de Matronas. Escuelas de Enfermería “Virgen del Rocío”.Avda. Manuel Siurot, s/n. 41013 Sevilla.
Abstract
The use of episiotomy and its variety depends on the countries, the professional group whom belongs the staff attending deliveries and basically on the discrimination of the staff who attends them. The most common variety and the discretion to use it are influenced by more orless territorial records.
This study has got two main aims: a) Describing the Maternal Education Programs influence on preventing the pelvic floor damage; and b) reporting data about the incidence of episiotomy at the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla.
A descriptional and cross sectional study was carried out. Data were collected at the Puerperal Hospital Unit between February and June in 1997 from the following sources: dossier from both mothers and newborns, personal interview to every mother and the registry of deliveries. Patients who had undertaken maternal education courses and who had not were compared.
87 mothers who had a natural delivery attended by a midwife at the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío were interviewed.
The result was a rate of episiotomy of 56.8% (46 cases), observing significant differences with respect to higher parity and less incidence of episiotomy. No Significant differences were observed with respect toundertaking Maternal Education courses and more or less pelvic floor injuries.
As conclusion, the Maternal Education activities should be reorganizedin order to improve the pelvic floor muscle tone.
Keywords:
episiotomy; maternal education; midwifepelvic floor
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