A Review of Postpartum Care Education and Care Interventions in Iran

Abstract

background and Aim: Postpartum period can be considered one of the most sensitive life stages. Special care is provided in different countries. The Aim Of this study is to Survey postpartum care and educational programs in Iran. Materials and Methods: Data were collected by searching, Scientific Information Database, IranMedex, Magiran, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus databases were used. To searching articles in Persian sources, the keywords of the postpartum period, Clinical Trial, Program, Education, Care, Intervention, and English equivalent were searched from 2009 to 2019. Then, the titles and abstracts of the articles were evaluated by consort and Jadad Check List, and finally, 49 articles were reviewed. Results: Interventions in eight areas of home care, postpartum support, health promotion theory, physical training, counseling, e-learning, face-to-face Educations, group Educations. The variables included quality of life, postpartum depression, breastfeeding, the satisfaction of care, fatigue and asleep, and the performance of mothers. Conclusion: Improving the quality of postpartum care needs to be enriched in the content of country care programs based on successful evidence of existing researches in the country such as visiting at home and by telephone mothers during the sensitive postpartum period in some cases can be seen

Keywords

• postpartum period
• clinical trial
• program
• education
• care