Effect of Dry Heat Application on Perineal Pain and Episiotomy Wound Healing among Primipara Women

Table 4

Total scores of perineal healing on the 5^th and 10^th days after intervention among dry and moist heat groups.

	Dry heat group (n = 50)		Sig	Moist heat group (n = 50)		Sig
	5^th day	10^th day		5^th day	10^th day
	No. (%)	No. (%)		No. (%)	No. (%)
Total perineal healing score
Complete	39 (78.0)	48 (96.0)	^MH^c	10 (20.0)	26 (52.0)	^MH^a
Moderate	7 (14.0)	2 (4.0)		10 (20.0)	15 (30.0)
Mild	4 (8.0)	0 (0.0)		16 (32.0)	8 (16.0)
No healing	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)		14 (28.0)	1 (2.0)
Mean ± SD	2.34 ± 1.661	0.84 ± 0.739		6.24 ± 3.274	3.32 ± 2.645
Sig	Z ^Wil = −3.46 (^c)			Z ^Wil = -2.15 (^a)

^MH: marginal homogeneity test, Z^Wil = Wilcoxon signed ranks test, significant at ^ac.