Operational definitions
Acute Postoperative Pain: pain present in a surgical patients soon after
surgical procedures.(26).
Cesarean Delivery: the delivery of a fetus through surgical incisions
made through the abdominal wall (laparotomy) and the uterine wall
(hysterectomy)(27).
Patient Satisfaction: a subjective measure of whether a
patient’s expectations about a health encounter were met.(11)
5-Likert Scale ;A type of psychometric response scale in which
respondents specify their level of satisfaction to a statement in five
points used to measure satisfaction level(28).
Systemic Analgesia: opioids and/ or non-opioids analgesic drugs given
for postoperative pain (29).
NRS; is a subjective measure in which individuals rate there pain on an
eleven point numerical scale. The scale is composed of 0(no pain at all)
to 10(worst imaginable pain)(29).
Data collection instrument, procedures and quality
control
The training was given to data collectors by the principal investigator
to make them familiar with the data collection tool. Data was collected
via patients‟ chart review, and interviewing Pain intensity was measured
based on verbally responded numerical rating scales (VNRS). During data
collection, regularly supervised and follow-up will be undertaken by
supervisors daily and with further cross-checks by the principal
investigator for completeness and consistency of data. Data clean up and
crosschecking of missing data were done by multiple imputation methods
before analysis on SPSS.