Effect of electronic education on the awareness of women about post partum breast feeding

Introduction: Electronic education is there to enhance knowledge of patients especially mothers during postpartum and can provide an efficient way to enhance personnel-patient interaction.  So, this study was conducted to define the effect of electronic education on the awareness of women about post...

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Main Authors: Fariba Fahami, Soheila Mohamadirizi, Parvin Bahadoran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2014-08-01
Series:International Journal of Pediatrics
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Online Access:http://ijp.mums.ac.ir/pdf_2985_908a51e3753c4b33b2020fb15a45003c.html
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Summary:Introduction: Electronic education is there to enhance knowledge of patients especially mothers during postpartum and can provide an efficient way to enhance personnel-patient interaction.  So, this study was conducted to define the effect of electronic education on the awareness of women about post partum breast feeding education. Materials and Methods: This is a quasi- experimental study conducted on  72 primiparous women during  postpartum period referring to Shahid Beheshti Hospital in  2013 .  In order to educate the subjects through electronic and paper based methods, the subjects were selected through random allocation.  A pre- test before and a post- test after education were conducted with a 15 item questionnaire to measure women’s awareness about breast feeding. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistical tests , and t-test and paired t- test through SPSS 11.5.  Significance level was considrred  (P
ISSN:2345-5047
2345-5055