The Evaluation of Childbirth Class and Educational Need of Pregnant Women

Park, Young Sook; Kim, Young Im; Park, Yeon Hwan

doi:1996.2.1.108

J Korean Acad Women Health Nurs > Volume 2(1); 1996 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Women's Health Nursing 1996;2(1):108-118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.1996.2.1.108

The Evaluation of Childbirth Class and Educational Need of Pregnant Women

Young Sook Park¹, Young Im Kim², Yeon Hwan Park³

¹Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
²Associate Professor, Department of Health Science, Korea National Open University, Seoul, Korea
³Doctrol, Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

This study was conducted to identify the educational need of pregnant women, and to evaluate the effect of the 2-hour childbirth class provided by researchers. The subjects were composed of 183 pregnant women who participated voluntarily in the 2-hour childbirth class, and the data were collected by self reporting structured questionnaire designed by researchers. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, paired t test, and McNemar test by SPSS pc program. The results were as follows ; 1. Mean age of th subjects was 27 and most subjects graduated from the high school and the college. 80.3% of the subjects had nuclear family. 82.5% of the subjects were full time housewives. 2. 85.8% of the subjects were nullipara. Though 71.6% of the subjects might have antepartal care in the clinic, 67.2% of the subjects had no chance to participate in the childbirth class before this study. 3. Subject's health and lifestyle, especially related to eating habits, were changed in the antepartum period. We found that the pregnancy affected positively on health and lifestyle of the women. Over 75% of the subjects became to understand the progress of labor, breath methods during the labor, and perineal exercise. Most subjects changed to think that they could control their body more actively and positively during the labor after participating in the childbirth class. 93.4% answered that 'childbirth class was necessary and important'. Most subjects wanted to be taught the contents, such as postpartum care, breast feeding, and infant care in the childbirth class. In conclusion, pregnant women to attend the childbirth educational program with their husband, and the 2-hour childbirth class provided by the researchers very effective in many aspects. Therefore we anticipated that the childbirth class on basis of pregnant women's needs will contribute to improvement of pregnant women's health and well-being during the labor.

Key Words: Educational need if pregnant women; Effect of childbirth class