Objective: To explore the effect of humanistic pain management based on active pain assessment and the visual analog scale in postpartum women after cesarean delivery.
Methods: We selected 100 postpartum women who underwent cesarean delivery in Xuzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital from April to December 2021 and divided the postpartum women into a management group and a conventional group, with 50 cases in each group. The conventional group was given routine pain management, while the management group was given humanistic pain management based on active pain assessment and visual analog scale score. The quality of pain management, sleep quality, unhealthy emotion, maternal comfort, breastfeeding rates, and patient compliance in the 2 groups were compared.
Results: The most severe degree of pain, the least degree of pain, the frequency of moderate and severe pain, and the influence of pain on sleep were lower in the management group than in the conventional group. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score was lower and the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and the Self-Rating Depression Scale scores were higher in the management group than in the conventional group. In addition, the comfort scores for the second day and the third day after delivery were higher in the management group than in the conventional group. The breastfeeding rate and patient compliance were higher in the management group than in the conventional group.
Conclusion: Humanistic pain management based on active pain assessment and the visual analog scale can improve the quality of maternal pain management, the quality of sleep, and maternal comfort, ameliorate maternal adverse emotions, and promote breastfeeding and patient compliance.