The effect of education based on health belief model on postpartum care in pregnant women

Abstract

The integrated postpartum care is the most important factor in the prevention and reduction of delivery complications. Despite the free services for pregnant women, mothers do not show their interest to use them as appropriate. Therefore, this research was carried out to determine the effect of training pregnant women based on health belief model (HBM) on increasing the use of postpartum health care. This research was an empirical study (before-after study) conducted on 90 pregnant women referring to healthcare centers of Hamadan. The participants were randomly divided into two intervention (n=45) and control (n=45) groups. The educational intervention in this research was based on HBM performed as lecturing and question/answering in four 1-hour sessions and presenting educational content as leaflet. A researcher-made questionnaire was used in 3 stages of before intervention, and immediately after intervention, and 2 months after delivery to collect data. The comparison of the two groups showed that the mean of knowledge and constructs of HBM (including perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy) as well as behavior of mothers after training had a significant increase in the intervention group compared to the control group. According to the obtained results, designing and implementing training programs based on health belief model can help promote mothers` behavior in postpartum care. Keywords: Education, Health Services, Maternal, Postpartum Care Journal of Research & HealthSocial Development & Health Promotion Research Center Vol. 8, No. 4, Jul & Aug 2018 Pages: 382-391 DOI: 10.29252/jrh.8.4.382 Original Article

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“…The pregnant women were randomly divided into three independent groups, including two intervention groups and one control group using the random number table. To allow the comparison of the mean scores of three groups, the sample size was estimated drawing upon the previous research [11] and using the following sample size formula with 90% power assuming a 5% significance level (α=0.05). Considering a dropout rate of 20%, the sample size for each group was found to be 32.…”

“…After the intervention, in cases where participants were not accessible, the questionnaire was completed by the researcher over the phone. Data were collected by a standardized questionnaire developed by Taghdisi et al [11]. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were evaluated by content validity and test-retest methods, respectively.…”