Abstract
Background and Objectives: Anxiety is the most important factor of pain rate and mother's adaptation with pain. So, decreasing mother's stress and anxiety will increase their co- operation and adaptation which results the less pain, anxiety and the shortest labor in instructed mothers. More than 90% of women have experienced the childbirth pain once in their lives; most of them describe it as intolerable and tiresome. This attitude has caused women to select cesarean section without considering its side effects. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of antenatal education on mother's anxiety and pain.
Methods and Materials: In this prospective observational study 70 women have randomly allocated they were in their 16th - 20th weeks of pregnancy. This group was taken practical and theoretical instructions of safe childbirth methods. Then we gathered a matches group of 70 women as control group. Patient of each group was being examined during labor and childbirth and data was compared between two groups.
Results: The results showed that labor rate (Z=10.634, U=26), duration (Z=10.409, U=75) and anxiety (Z=10.135, U=71) of experiment group were less than control group, and their difference was significant (P=0/05).
Conclusion: It seems that instructing theoretical points and practical skills increase mother's self- confidence and decrease their fear and anxiety during whole period of pregnancy and childbirth.