Influence of Environmental Setting on Maternal Comfort and Satisfaction

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.071How to use a DOI?

Keywords

birth environment, childbirth, comfort, satisfaction

Abstract

Childbirth is a valuable experience for women. Pshychological disorder such as anxiety is often felt by women during labor, it can be solved by physical environmental support in terms of environmental modifications that put women in comfort to reach labor satisfactory. By modifying a home-like labor environment, it boosts women comfort and make easier birth, it leads to maternal satisfaction. Labor environmental setting is conducted by involving stimulus of the senses including sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. This study aimed to analyze the influence of labor environmental settings on maternal comfort and satisfaction. This study belongs to a quasi-experimental study with a non equivalent control group design. Samples in this study were all women giving birth in Bidan Praktik Mandiri West Bandung regency and Cimahi by involving 60 women. The draft of bivariable analysis by applying Mann Whitney Test and multivariable analysis by using two-proportion test with SPSS assistance. The results show that there is an influence of labor environmental settings on maternal comfort and satisfaction (p <0.05). It indicates that mother in control group have risk 4,25 feel uncomfortable than intervention group, and mother in control group have risk 3,33 feel unsatisfied than intervention group. At last, it concludes that there is an influence environmental settings of labor on maternal comfort and satisfaction.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A Meiranny
AU  - DS Siagian
AU  - FN Khoirunnisa
AU  - L Lestari
AU  - dan N Cahyati
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Influence of Environmental Setting on Maternal Comfort and Satisfaction
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 508
EP  - 513
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.071
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.071
ID  - Meiranny2021
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