WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Komal Pandya*, Madhu Jeengar, Geetanjali Sharma, Dharmesh Chaturvedi, Dr. Vijay Singh Rawat and Dr. M. U. Mansuri

ABSTRACT

Background: Episiotomy is used to widen vaginal orifice to facilitate difficult deliveries. There is high prevalence of episiotomy during labour process, and there is significant role of both dry heat and moist in healing of episiotomy. Therefore present study aims to compare moist heat and dry heat application on healing of episiotomy. Material & Method: Quantitative quasi experimental post-test only research design was used to carry out the study. A sample of 60 postnatal mothers selected for the study through non probability convenient sampling technique. First thirty postnatal mothers allocated to group A (dry heat recipient) and next 30 postnatal mothers allocated to group B (moist heat recipient). Results: In Group A (dry heat recipient), 73.33% postnatal mothers had mild wound healing and 26.66% had moderate wound healing whereas in Group B (moist heat recipient), 53.33% postnatal mothers had mild wound healing, 26.66% had moderate wound healing and 20% postnatal mothers had adequate wound healing. Mean post test wound healing score of Group B (moist heat recipient) was higher than mean post test wound healing score of Group A (dry heat recipient). There was significant association found between the wound healing score and selected variables of group A (Dry heat recipient) like parity, weight of the baby, type of family and indication of episiotomy. Conclusion: Study concluded that both dry and moist heat was effective in wound healing but moist heat was more effective and it was found significant also.