About this trial
The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins after childbirth and is typically considered to last for six weeks. Stress is considered a response to any stressor within external or internal milieu, to stay in an adaptive mode using functional or dysfunctional coping skills. It initiates an alterable mode that ultimately becomes a prolonged adaptive struggle The study will be a randomized controlled trial and will be conducted in Jinnah hospital, Lahore. This study will be completed in a time duration of 8 months after the approval of synopsis. Nonprobability convenience sampling technique will be used, and participants will be recruited in study after randomization. The subjects will be divided into two groups and group A will receive progressive relaxation technique along with Benson relaxing technique. and group B will receive progressive relaxation technique and deep breathing exercises will be used as a baseline treatment. The tools that will be used for pre and post treatment assessment are Postpartum fatigue scale (PFS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS\_10), WHOQOL-BREF Scale. The data will be assessed after 12 weeks. After data collection data will be analyzed by using SPSS version 25.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
• Parity of women must not more than 3 times
Start from 2nd week of postpartum female
Women with aged group of 20- 40 were included in study.(24)
Women who had Vaginal or c section delivery were included in study.
Disqualifiers
• Women with Diabetes Militias were excluded
Women with Breast cancer were excluded
Ovarian cancer were excluded
Patient with dementia, delusional disorder were excluded
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Progressive relaxation techniques
- Benson relaxation techniques