Abstract:
Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage is the best method to reduce maternal complications and maternal mortality. This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of postpartum hemorrhage prevention program amount on blood loss during two hours postpartum period, duration of labor, and degree of perineal tear. Participants consisted of 54 nulliparous low-risk parturients giving birth in the delivery room at a general hospital in Chon Buri province during October 2018 to July 2019. These parturients were equally divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group by random samplingeach group composed of 27 parturients. The experimental group received a postpartum hemorrhage prevention program, and the control group received regular nursing care. A demographic questionnaire and pregnancy and labor records were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and independent t-test. The results revealed that, there are no significant differences between blood loss during two hours postpartum period, durations of the first stage of labor, and the second stage of labor among the experimental group and the control group (t 52= -1.43, p= .16, t 52= 1.15, p= .26, andZ= -1.5, p= .94). However, the number of episiotomies in the experimental group were lesser than those in the control group (52.9% and 92.6%), and the degree of a perineal tear in the experimental group was lesser than that of in the control group (85.20 % and 100 %). The results suggest that nurses and midwives should restricted episiotomy and promote the parturients to push the babies with the open glottis method.