Abstract:
Sectio caesarea is an obstetric surgery to deliver the baby through abdomen wall and uterus wall
incision. Sectio caesarea caused tissue destruction and pain. The pain after surgery probably caused
any discomfort and difficulty for mother to breastfeeding. Hence, finding the comfortable
breastfeeding position is important. The positions that commonly used to breastfeeding were sit down
position and laying down position, while the football hold position is never used. By performing the
football hold position, the baby will not getting contact to surgery wound. This study aimed to
identify the effect of football hold breastfeeding position on pasca sectio caesarea pain in obstetric
ward of Zainoel Abidin General Hospital Banda Aceh. This study was conducted on 13th until 25th
Mei 2014, using quasi-experimental design by the pretest-posttest with the control group. The number
of subjects in this study was 15 for intervention group and 15 for control group selected based on
inclusion criteria using the purposive sampling. The data was collected by leading interview and
measuring pain intensity level using Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), then analyzed by statistical
paired t-Test. The findings revealed that there was significance difference level of sectio caesarea pain
before and after football hold breastfeeding position with the p-value=0,0001 (≤0,05). It also indicated
the significance effect of breastfeeding football hold position on pasca sectio caesarea pain. This
study provided the valuable information regarding the importance of having a standard operating
procedure (SOP) to advocate the hospital institution in breastfeeding position by nursing service to
improve the level of patient’s comfort.
