[Sources of women's education about the puerperium and breast feeding]

Dorota Cwiek1, Violetta Luczyńska, Katarzyna Augustyniuk

  • 1Z Zakładu Propedeutyki Nauk Pielegniarskich Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej w Szczecinie.

Wiadomosci Lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960)
|May 12, 2005
PubMed

Future parents have a wide range of possibilities in gaining theoretical knowledge from books, magazines, relatives' advice, doctor or midwife' consultations in outpatient clinics. The most professional ways of getting skills in that matter are birth schools. The aim of this study was to analyze the sources of knowledge about puerperium and breast feeding at birth schools in comparison to mothers who did not attend such training. The study was undertaken in the Department of Obstetric and Perinatology in Szczecin. Group I (investigated) consisted of 129 women who finished birth school training course and group II (control) consisted of 165 women with no formalized prenatal education. A questionnaire and medical histories were used in our analysis. The results showed that the birth school attendants were more likely to use a lot of education sources in the field of breast feeding and that some law aspects in puerperium and puerperium pathology need more attention because books and magazines are the main source of knowledge in that matter instead of birth schools classes.

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