title: Effect of Anaesthesia Methods for Regaining Daily Life Activities in Cesarean Patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Postpartum period is physically, socially and emotionally a difficult time for the parents and the baby to become a family. We tried to investigate how the anaesthesia method affects patients who underwent cesarean delivery, as a factor which also affects this period.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred and six parturients, who underwent elective cesarean delivery in Celal Bayar University Hafsa Sultan Hospital were recruited for our study. After demographic data and anaesthesia methods were noted, an EQ-5D health survey and Katz ADL scale were evaluated face to face 24 hours postoperatively, and by telephone on the 5th postoperative day.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The percentage of patients who had general anaesthesia was 35.2% (n=71), while 19.8% (n=40) had epidural anaesthesia and 45% (n=91) had spinal anaesthesia. Among -these three methods, the EQ-5D health survey revealed that the outcome at postoperative 24 hours was best in epidural anaesthesia and that general anaesthesia outcome was the worst (p=0.007). The Katz ADL scale at postoperative 24. hours showed that epidural anaesthesia was better than the other methods for regaining daily life activities (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study showed that epidural anaesthesia had the most effective role among the methods in regaining daily life activities after elective cesarean delivery, which was demonstrated using the EQ-5D health survey and Katz ADL scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Canan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gürsoy
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gülay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ok
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Demet
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aydın
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erhan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eser
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Erbüyün
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: İdil
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Tekin
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yeşim
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Baytur
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yıldız
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uyar
keywords: Cesarean sectio; anaesthesia; quality of life