Effectiveness of Written Education in Primipara Mothers Knowledge and Practice about Newborn Care in Alzahra Educational Medical Center, 1999.

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Abstract: Introduction: The early weeks after birth care stressful for parents and they have questions and they have questions and have the need for informations and support from nurses. In which many maternal problems and concerns about newborn care can be resolved with education. However, regarding to decrease of duration of bedridden in hospital, necessary opportunities for teaching of educational subjects were be restricted. In order to help for efficiency of newborn care, production of written designs that coordinated with expectant objectives and diagnoses are necessary, because to help family ability for performance of newborn care responsibility. Considering that one of propounded methods about newborn care is written education, therefore, it is necessitate to conduct one study in relation to effectiveness of written education in knowledge and practice about newborn care. Materials & Methods: This a semi-experimental study in which 100 Premipara mothers as case group and 95 Premipara mothers as control group were selected by simple sampling method. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire consisting of three parts (demographic-social characteristic’s, statement about the knowledge and questions about practice) in two phases. In first phase, in first days after childbirth (before written education), First and second parts (demographic-social characteristic’s and statement of knowledge) were completed, then, before discharge of maternity hospital, besides general postpartum education, educational booklet was given to case group mothers. In second phase, in end one month after childbirth, second and third parts (statements of knowledge and questions of practice) were completed. Findings: The findings showed that in first days after childbirth, 83 percent of case group mothers and 85.3% of control group mothers had middle knowledge in which there was no statistical significant difference between group, However, in end one month after childbirth, 93% of case group mothers had high knowledge, against case group, 29.5% of control group mothers had high knowledge in which there was statistical significant difference between groups (p<0.001). In relation to practice, 63% of case group mothers had well practice, against case group, 12.6% of control group mothers had well practice in which there was statistical significant difference between groups (p<0.001). Conclusion: The results showed that written education have positive effect in mother’s knowledge and practice about newborn care. Therefore these results of study can help to health responsible and midwives to make educational booklets to raise mother’s knowledge and practice about newborn care.