Knowledge, attitude and practice on postpartum care of mothers in Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province

ABSTRACT

There are some problems in the postpartum requiring knowledge, attitude and practice of the mothers to take care themselves. Objectives: to describe knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on postpartum care at Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province in 2003. Subjects: 195 mothers in postpartum period. Method: crossectional study of the knowledge, attitude and practice on postpatum care. Result: 40% of mothers have good knowledge on postpartum care and 57.4% lack of knowledge on FP in the postpartum period. 50.7% and 59.5% of mothers declaired that it is necessary to use iron and vitamin A in the postpartum period. In fact the percentage of mothers who using vitamin A was 57.4%. The percentage of mothers were using contraceptives was 42.1%. The 72.6% out of 113 mothers had not applied any contraceptive methods because they think pregnancy can not be occurned during postpartum period. Conclusion: It is needed to strengthen the communication and counseling to mothers in order to improve their knowledge, attitude and practice for postpartum care.