Mothers' knowledge of newborn care and its relationship with individual, social and cultural factors in Tabriz Comprehensive community health centers in 1402

Abstract

Knowledge of mothers in caring for newborns and its relationship with individual, social and cultural factors in the comprehensive health centers of Tabriz city in 1402 Abstract Introduction: The mother is the key person and primary caregiver in maintaining the health and meeting the physiological and psychological needs of her baby. Taking care of the baby depends on the mother's knowledge, attitude and skills. Various factors can affect the mother's knowledge in caring for the baby. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the knowledge of mothers in caring for babies and its relationship with individual, social and cultural factors.

Materials and methods: The present study is a descriptive correlational study on 283 primiparous mothers. The study tool included a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of newborn care and a researcher-made questionnaire to determine effective individual, social and cultural variables. Data analysis was done with descriptive and inferential statistics using spss software version 25.

Findings:The knowledge level of mothers in the field of newborn care was average (52/3%). According to the results of the correlation test between the mother's individual factors: the source of the mother's information, the type of feeding the baby, the mother's decision to continue breastfeeding, the time the mother decided to feed the baby with breast milk, the person encouraging this and the belief in observing hand hygiene in infection control. Social factors: mother's age, age at conception, mother's job and education, income, husband's job and education, having a sponsor, receiving postpartum education from the mother and her supporters, giving birth in a private hospital and cultural factors: accepting safe cultural beliefs with care knowledge A positive and significant relationship was found between the mother and the baby (p<0/05)

conclusion: The level of mothers' knowledge about newborn care was determined to be average, and individual, social and cultural factors were effective on this matter. It is hoped that by taking into account the effective facilitating and intervening factors determined in this area by targeting socially-economically vulnerable mothers before and after childbirth, paying attention to the individual, social and cultural differences of mothers, taking care of the role of care family-oriented, training the treatment staff based on existing gaps, updating the training, strengthening training during pregnancy and after delivery, encouraging mothers to welcome these programs, finding the cause of inefficiency and reducing the acceptability of comprehensive health centers among mothers and fixing it and closing the gap Communication and information available between mothers and the treatment staff in the shadow of planning and suitable interventions should provide a favorable environment for improving the knowledge of mothers and optimal care of newborns.