Effects of Education on Primiparas' Postpartial care

Shin, Hye Sook; Kim, Sung Hee; Kwon, Sook Hee

doi:2000.6.1.34

J Korean Acad Women Health Nurs > Volume 6(1); 2000 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Women's Health Nursing 2000;6(1):34-45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2000.6.1.34

Effects of Education on Primiparas' Postpartial care

Hye Sook Shin¹, Sung Hee Kim², Sook Hee Kwon³

¹Professor, School of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
²Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Incheon, Korea
³Professor, Dep. of Nursing DaeDong College, Pusan, Korea

Abstract

The study was to find whether the educational program contributed to increase of knowledge and self-efficacy of the postpartal primiparas. This study aimed at improvement of the educational effect for postpartal primiparas. The Subjects were 34 primiparas who were admitted to the obstetric ward in a University hospital from November 15th to December 9th, 1999. The Subjects were those who had no labor pain at the admission time, had no complications during labor and delivery and, gave birth to a healthy baby. They were tested on knowledge and self-efficacy two times, one at the damission time and prior to discharge. After the first test nurses in a maternity ward taught them on postpartal care. Two tools were developed by authors based on literature review. The test tool fr knowledge of postpartal car consisted of 23 items. The test tool for self-efficacy of postpartal care consisted of 16 items. Analysis of demographic data were analyzed with calculation of percentage. Score differences between the first test and the second test were analyzed with paired t-test. The Spss(Win 8.0) program was used for data analysis. The results are as follows. 1. There were not significant influencing general characteristics of primiparous to pre-educational knowledge. There were significant influencing general characteristics of primiparous to post-educational knowledge : occupation(t=13.04, p=0.00), postpartal education(t=5.51, p=0.02). 2. There were not significant influencing general characteristics of primiparous to pre-educational self-efficacy. There were significant influencing gneral characteristics of primiparous to post-educational self-efficacy : antenatal education(t=5.53, p=0.02) 3. Primiparas' knowledge of postpartal care increased significantly after education(t=13.04, p=0.00). 4. Primiparas' self-efficacy of postpartal care increased significantly after education(t=5.51, p=0.02). 5. Correlation between knowledge and self-efficacy was r=.360(p=0.03). We suggest follow-up studies to find whether primiparas' self-efficacy will last after discharge or not.

Key Words: Postpartal care