Niven C A, Gijsbers K
Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.
J Pain Symptom Manage. 1996 Feb;11(2):116-25. doi: 10.1016/0885-3924(95)00158-1.
This exploratory study aimed to examine the nature, origin, and effectiveness of pain coping strategies used during childbirth. The labor pain of 51 British women was assessed around the time of birth by visual analogue scales and the McGill Pain Questionnaire. The use of pain coping strategies and their origins was established through the analysis of data obtained in an extended semi-structured interview. Subjects were found to use a range of strategies during labor, many of which they had previously used to cope with pain. The nature of these strategies was, in essence, similar to that described in the empirical literature on pain coping, though it appeared that strategies had often been acquired informally as well as through structured training. The total number of strategies used in labor was negatively correlated with levels of labor pain.
这项探索性研究旨在考察分娩过程中所使用的疼痛应对策略的本质、来源及有效性。通过视觉模拟量表和麦吉尔疼痛问卷，对51名英国女性分娩时的产痛进行了评估。通过对在扩展的半结构化访谈中获取的数据进行分析，确定了疼痛应对策略的使用情况及其来源。研究发现，受试者在分娩过程中使用了一系列策略，其中许多策略他们之前也曾用于应对疼痛。这些策略的本质与疼痛应对实证文献中所描述的策略相似，不过，这些策略似乎常常是通过非正式方式以及结构化训练获得的。分娩时使用的策略总数与产痛程度呈负相关。
