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Effectiveness of Nursing Care on Postnatal Mothers Immediately After the Delivery

S. Lavanya, R. Danasu

Abstract


Postnatal mothers are at risk as most of the deaths occur in this period, when compared to during pregnancy and childbirth. Postnatal care should be a continuation of care the women has received through her pregnancy and labour. It aims to provide consistency of advice and support for recovery from pregnancy and childbirth. The objectives of the study were to assess health condition of the postnatal mothers immediately after the delivery, to provide nursing care for postnatal mothers immediately after the delivery, to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care for postnatal mothers immediately after the delivery, to find out the association between demographic variables and health status of postnatal mothers. Pre-experimental research design was used. The study was conducted in postnatal ward at headquarters hospital, Kancheepuram. Thirty postnatal mothers were selected immediately after the delivery based on convenient sampling technique. The data were collected from the postnatal mothers for a period of 6 weeks by using the structured assessment tool. Assessment of postnatal mothers was done immediately after the delivery till 24 hours. Nursing care was given after each assessment. The result shows that during assessment phase, 25(83.3%) had severe health deterioration, 5(16.6%) had mild health deterioration, 26(86.6%) had normal health status and 4(13.3%) had mild health deterioration. The improvement score mean and SD was 17 and 2.258, respectively. The ‘t’ value was 41.26, less than the table value at p<0.05, so it was concluded that the nursing care is effective for postnatal mothers immediately after the delivery. There was statistically no association between nursing care of postnatal mothers and demographic variables.


Keywords: health status, nursing care, postnatal care

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jopnn.v2i1.135

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