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Abstract
Walking is a method of intervention that prevents labor from lasting too long. Prolonged labor increases a women risk of exhaustion, infection, hemorrhage after delivery and need for caesarean delivery. Ambulation and change of position during labor facilitates its progress through stimulating more effective contractions, increased the pressure of the presenting part against the cervix, which facilitated rotation and descent of the head.
Throughout the scientific development of obstetrics, this controversy has been examined several times under different perspectives. from the physiological standpoint, the supine position has been observed to be associated with the compression of abdominal blood vessels and impairment of fetal nutrition and oxygenation. It has also been argued that this position would negatively interfere with uterine contraction and progress of cervical dilatation.
The purpose of the study:
The study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of walking on cervical dilatation during the first stage of labor.
Sample:
Simple random sample of 68 women was taken from obstetric Gynecology department at Elshohada Hospital Menoufia Governorate was selected and divided into two equal groups, 34 for experimental group who were received a nursing intervention and 34 for control group who were received routine hospital care. Both groups fulfill, the inclusion criteria of the study.