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Abstract
Summary
The (WHO) describes the postnatal period as the most critical and yet the most neglected phase in the lives of mothers and newborns, even than labor and pregnancy
There are some changes occur during postpartum period. This strongly impact women’s lives, as they not only interfere with their biological and physical state, but also impact their interpersonal and family relationships, thus the need for puerperal adaptability. This period demands physiological and psychosocial care, so that women can foster self-care and at the same time is able to provide skilled care to her child
Aim of the study was to assess women’s knowledge and practice of self-care of minor discomfort during postpartum period and to improve women’s self-care for minor discomfort during postpartum period
Quasi experimental research design was used to conduct this study. The study was conducted at Assiut Women’s Health Hospital, emergency unit.
This study was carried out on (200) women during immediately postpartum period, sample was divided into two groups (study and control groups) and the study sample was selected randomly as sample was collected through 8 months, 5dayes a week.
Data were collected by using an interviewing questionnaire was developed based on the review of relevant literature to collect maternal personal data and to investigate mother’s self-care practices for relieving minor discomfort during postpartum period.
The main findings of this study were:
1- Regarding socio-demographic characteristics of studied women , the present study showed that about half of women’s age in this study was 20-25 years ,more than half of women lived in the rural area , one third of women had secondary education also one third had university and the majority of them were housewives .
2- Regarding obstetric history and current labor data, the study showed that half of women were primigravida and about on third were multigravida and the other 20% were grand multi.
3- Regarding women’s knowledge about postpartum period it found that about three quarters of women in the study knew the definition of postpartum period, but less than one third knew the type of lochia and warning signs that might occur during postpartum
4- As regard to women’s knowledge about postpartum minor discomfort, the present study showed that the studied women had incorrect knowledge about definition of postpartum minor discomfort (85.0%), after pain (98.0%), also had incorrect knowledge about causes of urinary retention (82.0%), fatigue (65.0%), and more than two thirds of studied women had incorrect knowledge about cracked nipple and breast engorgement.
5- The present study findings revealed that, there was a highly statistical significant improvement in the studied women’s knowledge regarding postpartum period and postpartum minor discomforts as the majority of mothers had poor knowledge before intervention compared to nearly three quarters of them had good knowledge score post intervention.
6- Regarding self-care practice, the present study showed that there was a highly statistical significant improvement in women’s reported self-care practice for minor discomfort during postpartum period as 87% ,84%,91%,92% of women respectively in study group had correct self-care practice regarding perineal care , lochia assessment ,breast care and care of after pain .