Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Nov 2021)

Effect of educational video on newborn care for the knowledge of pregnant and postpartum women and their families

  • Leilane Barbosa de Sousa,
  • Hévila Ferreira Gomes Medeiros Braga,
  • Aynoan de Sousa Amaro Alencastro,
  • Maria Jocelane Nascimento da Silva,
  • Brena Shellem Bessa de Oliveira,
  • Lydia Vieira Freitas dos Santos,
  • Emanuella Silva Joventino Melo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1371
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 75, no. suppl 2

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ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the effect of educational video on newborn care to increase the knowledge of pregnant, postpartum, and family members. Methods: a quasi-experimental study, with pre-intervention and post-intervention evaluation with a single group. Fifty-eight pregnant, postpartum, and family members treated in basic health units and a hospital in Ceará, Brazil, participated. The study used the McNemar and binomial tests for the analysis. Results: after the intervention, there was an increase in the frequency of hits, from 70.82% to 92.97%. Most of the questions presented a significant increase of hits (p < 0.05) with an emphasis on sleeping position, drying of clothes, free demand for breastfeeding, and things to avoid (such as accessories in the sleeping place and talc in diaper change). Conclusions: the educational video was effective to participants in acquiring knowledge on the care of newborns and can assist in health education activities carried out by nurses.

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