Pregnancy is the most precious and joyful celebration for women during their lifetime. Yet not all the pregnancies become joyful when the mother faces risk like pregnancy induced hypertension. It’s a state where the antenatal mother is subjected to various kind of stress and their imbalance in the mental health leads to physical illness, marital conflict, social aloofness and poor coping strategies may have an impact on the health of both the antenatal mother and the unborn fetus. The health care professionals particularly the midwives have a vital role in identifying the stress of the antenatal women at an early stage and to educate the women about coping with the stress to maintain a healthy pregnancy. Objectives: to assess the effectiveness of Bensons relaxation therapy on level of stress and coping among primigravida mothers with pregnancy induced hypertension. Design: Pre experimental one group pre and post test design. Setting: Government Ranees Hospital, Pudukkottai Samples: 15 primigravida women with pregnancy induced hypertension fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected using purposive sampling technique. Tools : Data was collected using perceived stress scale and coping scale by Rao and Prabhu. Results: The study findings revealed that in the pre test majority 46.66% of the primigravida women had moderate level of stress, 40% of the primigravida women had mild level of stress and 6.66% of them had very low level and severe level of stress .whereas in the post test majority 80% of the primigravidas women had mild level of stress and 13.33% of them had very low level of stress and 6.66% of them had moderate level of stress and none of them had severe level of stress after the provision of Bensons relaxation therapy. The pre test level of coping was found be majority 80% had no or low level of coping and 20% of them had moderate level of coping and none of them had high level of coping whereas in the post test majority 80% had moderate level of coping, 13.33% of them had high level of coping and only 6.66% had low level of coping. Conclusion: The study concluded that educational program on Bensons relaxation therapy have shown beneficial improvement in reducing the stress level among pregnancy women with mild PIH and has enhanced their level of coping with stress.

Keywords: Bensons Relaxation Therapy; Stress; Coping; Primigravida Mothers; Pregnancy Induced Hypertension.