Effective of Teaching Program on Perception on Taking Care Newborn among Postpartum Mother

Abstract

         The aim of this quasi-experimental study with two group posttest only design was to determine the effective of teaching program on perception on taking care newborn among postpartum mother. Populations were postpartum mother who admit at postpartum unit. Samples were simple random sampling from postpartum and divide into two group which were teenager postpartum mother and adult postpartum mother who age more than 20 years old at birth. Intervention was planned education program in which lecture demonstration and active learning were utilized and last for one hour in each class. Perception on taking care new born was collected by perception scale in dichotomous scale. Psychoproperties of this scale was acceptable. Independent t-test was used to determine the difference on mean score on perception on taking care newborn among teenager postpartum mother and adult postpartum mother.

         The findings revealed that overall teenager postpartum mother rated the perception score on high level (90.00%) followed by moderate level (10.00%); whereas adult postpartum mother rated the perception score on high level (93.30%) followed by moderate level (6.70%). Moreover, there is no statistically significant different on perception scale among teenager postpartum mother and adult postpartum mother.

          The suggestion is that nurse should be informed and more focus on breast feeding; especially the benefit of colostrum and mother should breastfeed their baby every two hours. More significantly, nurse should be informing postpartum mother about nearest health promotion hospital that postpartum can be seeking for any assistance. Community health volunteer should be also trained in order to assist postpartum mother for breastfeeding.