The Effect of Stress Ball on Labor Pain, Anxiety and Satisfaction in Labor

Inclusion Criteria: * Being at 38 weeks or more of pregnancy, * Having a single, healthy fetus in head position, * Applying during the latent phase of labor (cervical dilatation between 0-3 cm), .To give birth vaginally. Exclusion Criteria: * Having become pregnant through assisted reproductive techniques, * Having a gestational or chronic disease, * Having an obstacle to giving birth vaginally, * Suspicion of fetal anomaly, * Not volunteering to work, * Women under the age of 18, * Women who are illiterate in Turkish, * Decision to perform caesarean section during labor, * The participant wishes to withdraw from the research, * Development of fetal distress, * Using vacuum or forceps during birth, .Women with vision, hearing or mental problems.