DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2026.v14i04.014

Pages: 511-515

Background: Pregnancy and child birth is a journey towards motherhood. Every woman enters in to labour with a certain amount of tension and anxiety. These experiences may vary from woman to woman. Therefore, individual care during labour and delivery is essential. During pregnancy, psychological transformation occurs in a woman's life. If the pregnant woman is unable to cope up with the present condition, pregnancy and child birth may cause extreme traumatic stress. Child birth is a moment of joy; at the same time, it is a time of pain and stress. Aims: To compare the mean postpartum specific anxiety scores between mothers who underwent LSCS and those who had normal vaginal delivery. Methods and Material: The Postpartum specific anxiety was assessed by using Centre for Post-partum specific anxiety scale from a purposive sample of postnatal mothers at HSK hospital of Bagalkot. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: There was a that most (53.33%) of postnatal mothers had mild or no clinically significant anxiety and remaining 46.66 percent of them had clinically significant anxiety in Normal Delivery. There was a most (70%) of postnatal mothers had clinically significant anxiety and remaining 30 percent of them had mild or no clinically significant anxiety in LSCS. There is a comparison between Normal delivery and LSCS scores was calculated with ‘Unpaired t test’. The calculated t value is 1.3807 and the table value is 2.01 with the significance level of 0.05, it shows postpartum anxiety high in LSCS. The association between postpartum anxiety with their socio-demographic characteristics in Normal Delivery there was a significant association was found between postpartum anxiety with their age (ꭓ2=7.3125, P<0.025٭). The association between postpartum anxiety with their socio-demographic characteristics in the LSCS there was a significant association was found between postpartum anxiety with their age (ꭓ2=8.0302, P<0.0361٭) and age (ꭓ