Effect of self-care guideline versus counseling on post cesarean section women practices.

Abstract

Guideline and counseling is a very important item for woman during postpartum period as it improves women's knowledge, practice and their self-care to promote their longer-term physiological and emotional wellbeing. A qausi- experimental study design aimed to evaluate the effect of self-care guideline versus counseling on post cesarean section women practices. The study was conducted at antenatal clinic, postpartum cesarean section and family planning clinics at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital. 370 women had cesarean section delivery were included in the study for purposive sample technique, those were equally divided into guideline and counseling group. Three tools of data collection were used named interviewing questionnaire sheet contain socio-demographic data, obstetric history, pre- test and post-test for assessing effect of self-care guideline versus counseling on post cesarean section women practices. groups and women follow up card. The main result of the current study revealed that, 67.6%, 67% of the studied sample had poor level of knowledge in guideline group and counseling group respectively before the intervention.