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.