title: [PAIN AFTER CHILDBIRTH AND ITS IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Public attitude towards labor pain and pain relief in labor is not fully formed.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study the frequency of formation of acute and chronic pain during delivery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospectively we surveyed 300 women 18-48 years old, who had childbirth naturally or by caesarean section for 4-6 months before the survey and analyzed the history of their childbirth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The obtained data showed that the problem with generic pain has real medical and social consequences, significantly altering the quality of life of women as during childbirth and the postpartum period. Of those surveyed, 74.9% of women in childbirth experienced severe pain during labor; which had 16.7% of women had led to a complete loss of mobility. With approximately 20% of women believed the use of methods of anaesthesia was dangerous and 63% thought that anaesthesia is possible only under strict obstetric indications. Only 20% of pregnant women expected to give birth without pain. In 3-6 months. after labor representation mothers opinion was not changed significantly. In 1 month or more after delivery or cesarean section pain was presented in 21% of women, in 2-3 months--13.7%, in more than 3 months--7%. In 4.3% of the patients the pain persistedfor 5-6 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant relationship between persistent for a long time after childbirth pain and the way the urgency of delivery, the method of anesthesia for caesarean section, the expression of acute pain during childbirth was not revealed.
authors.forename: Yu S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Polushin
authors.forename: Yu M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Korostelev
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Vartanova
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Kiselev
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Shirokov
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016362:Analgesia, Obstetrical / Q000379:methods; D000773:Anesthesia, Obstetrical / Q000379:methods; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D048949:Labor Pain / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D036801:Parturition / Q000523:psychology; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult