Effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Technique on Post-Partum Blues, Parenting Stress and Postnatal Outcome among Post Caesarean Section Mothers in Selected Hospitals at Coimbatore

The current study objective was to assess the effectiveness of emotional freedom technique on post-partum blues, parenting stress and postnatal outcomes among post cesarean section mothers. Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted for the study. purposive sampling technique was used in this study. Sample included in the study were post cesarean section mothers. The subject will be assessed for post-partum blues by using Likert AM I Blue? Assessment scale and parental stress will be measured by adopting parental stress scale and postnatal outcome will be assessed with the biological parameters. The study result indicate the area wise comparison of mean, SD and mean % of pre test score shows that, The mean score (48.4±1.97) which is 81% of total score on the area of postpartum blue. The mean score (56.4±2.24) which is 63% of total score was on the areas of Parenting stress and mean score (7.1±0.50) which is 36% of total score was on the areas of Post natal outcomes. The area wise post test scores shows that the highest mean percentage (76%) was observed for Post natal outcomes. More or less similar lowest mean score (17.4±1.81, 29.1±1.05) was found on postpartum blue and parenting stress, which is 29% and 32 % of total score. It shows that the highest difference in mean percentage was found on the postnatal outcomes (76%) followed by the difference found on the postpartum blue (29%) and parenting stress (32%). There is significant association between the post test score with the demographic variables of type of marriage(2=5.33) and employment status(2=5.56) of the mother. It seems that emotional freedom technique on postpartum blue, parenting stress and postnatal outcomes was found highly effective among post caesarean section mothers