Effects of floral therapy on labor and birth: a randomized clinical trial - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

INTRODUCTION

The Policy of Comprehensive Attention to Women’s Health focuses on improving obstetric care. One of the points observed in the Program of Comprehensive Attention to Women’s Health is the monitoring of pacts to reduce the rate of cesarean sections in hospitals of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde), rescuing the culture of the normal childbirth process as a natural childbirth, including it as the best choice, because it offers fewer risks to maternal and fetal health. In this sense, many other strands of research are present. One of them, of great significance for woman care, is that which deals with mother care in labor pain management^(–).

It is known that some factors, such as active phase of labor, rupture of the ovular membranes and induction, boost labor pain, leading mothers to enter a vicious Fear-Tension-Pain cycle⁽⁾.

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