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Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial
BACKGROUND: Postpartum home care plays an important role in prevention of postpartum complications. Regular visits of mothers during this period are imperative. This study aimed to provide postpartum home care for mothers to assess its effects on mothers’ health in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5583624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900452 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.JRMS_319_17 |
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author | Milani, Hourieh Shamshiri Amiri, Parastoo Mohseny, Maryam Abadi, Alireza Vaziri, Seyyed Mohammadreza Vejdani, Marjan |
author_facet | Milani, Hourieh Shamshiri Amiri, Parastoo Mohseny, Maryam Abadi, Alireza Vaziri, Seyyed Mohammadreza Vejdani, Marjan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Postpartum home care plays an important role in prevention of postpartum complications. Regular visits of mothers during this period are imperative. This study aimed to provide postpartum home care for mothers to assess its effects on mothers’ health in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out in two phases. First, a comprehensive postpartum home care program was compiled by performing a comparative study, using the available guidelines in this regard in different countries and based on the opinions of the experts. Next, a clinical trial was carried out on 276 women who gave birth in the university hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. There were 92 mothers in the intervention and 184 in the control group. The intervention group mothers were provided with postpartum home care service while the control group did not receive such a service. RESULTS: Outcome assessment at 60 days’ postpartum revealed a significant difference between the two groups in terms of the use of supplements, birth control methods, postpartum depression, breastfeeding problems, constipation, and fatigue (P < 0.05). No significant differences were noted between the two groups with regard to hospitalization, hemorrhoids, backache and lumbar pain (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: The postpartum home care program had a positive effect on some aspects of the mothers’ health status and their satisfaction in our society. |
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spelling | pubmed-55836242017-09-12 Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial Milani, Hourieh Shamshiri Amiri, Parastoo Mohseny, Maryam Abadi, Alireza Vaziri, Seyyed Mohammadreza Vejdani, Marjan J Res Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Postpartum home care plays an important role in prevention of postpartum complications. Regular visits of mothers during this period are imperative. This study aimed to provide postpartum home care for mothers to assess its effects on mothers’ health in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out in two phases. First, a comprehensive postpartum home care program was compiled by performing a comparative study, using the available guidelines in this regard in different countries and based on the opinions of the experts. Next, a clinical trial was carried out on 276 women who gave birth in the university hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. There were 92 mothers in the intervention and 184 in the control group. The intervention group mothers were provided with postpartum home care service while the control group did not receive such a service. RESULTS: Outcome assessment at 60 days’ postpartum revealed a significant difference between the two groups in terms of the use of supplements, birth control methods, postpartum depression, breastfeeding problems, constipation, and fatigue (P < 0.05). No significant differences were noted between the two groups with regard to hospitalization, hemorrhoids, backache and lumbar pain (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: The postpartum home care program had a positive effect on some aspects of the mothers’ health status and their satisfaction in our society. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5583624/ /pubmed/28900452 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.JRMS_319_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Research in Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Milani, Hourieh Shamshiri Amiri, Parastoo Mohseny, Maryam Abadi, Alireza Vaziri, Seyyed Mohammadreza Vejdani, Marjan Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title | Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title_full | Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title_fullStr | Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title_short | Postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: A clinical trial |
title_sort | postpartum home care and its effects on mothers’ health: a clinical trial |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5583624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900452 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.JRMS_319_17 |
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