Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation technique on postpartum afterpains intensity among multiparous women
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Abstract
Background: Afterpains had been documented as a major concern for women in the postpartum period. However, its management is a relatively neglected area of clinical research. As a result, evidence to support interventions to alleviate it is sparse. Despite the effectiveness of pharmacological approaches carried out to relieve afterpains, they may cause deleterious effect on the mother and child's health. Objective: To determine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation technique on postpartum afterpains intensity among multiparous women. Setting: The study was carried out at the postnatal unit in El-Shatby Maternity University Hospital affiliated to Alexandria University. Subjects: A convenient sample of 100 postnatal women. Tools: three tools were used. Basic data structured interview schedule, which included demographic characteristics, reproductive history & clinical assessment sheet; Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), and A modified version of Chamber Price Pain Rating Scale (CPPRS). Results: The study showed highly statistically significant between them (P=<0.0001) after the 1st & the 2nd sessions where a greater proportion of the control group (64%) had unbearable pain, compared to only (18% & 0%) respectively of the study group. On the 3 rd PP day, a highly statistically significant difference was also disclosed between both groups (P=<0.0001), where almost two-thirds (68%) of the control group had severe pain, compared to none of the study group. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that progressive muscle relaxation technique significantly reduced intensity of afterpains of postpartum mothers with the intervention. So, the study aim and hypothesis were achieved within the framework of the present study. Recommendations: The progressive muscle relaxation technique can be recommended as an effective modality for postpartum afterpain management respecting postpartum mother's preferences.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".