Because the postpartum women's self-reported stress is relatively low whereas the social support is relatively high, especially from the family, this confirms Pillsbury's conclusion regarding the significance of social support during the Chinese women's postpartum period. The study also showed that the three factors associated with postpartum stress were important predictors of postpartum women's health status. Future studies should compare the level of postpartum stress, social support, and women's health status in both Western and Eastern cultures.

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Preceptorship can improve new nurses' nursing competence; however, more studies are needed to ascertain its effects on new nurses' retention rates, job satisfaction and professional socialization to promote nursing care quality and resolve nursing shortages.

Interventions to decrease postpartum stress and to improve social support might decrease the likelihood of postpartum women's depression, which in turn might enhance their overall health status.

A series of analyses supported the validity and reliability of the revised Hung Postpartum Stress Scale. Additional research is recommended using confirmatory factor analysis to determine the stability of the factor structure identified in the present study.

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Postpartum women face a constellation of factors that could put them at risk for high levels of postpartum stress. Postpartum stress could significantly negatively impact women's health status. Nursing interventions should be tailored to decrease women's postpartum stress as a means of promoting postpartum women's pursuit of well-being.

Aim To investigate the effects of a virtual community on pregnant women's well‐being. Background The virtual social network has been growing rapidly but its effects remain unclear. Design A repeated‐measure and quasi‐experimental study. Methods We designed a closed Facebook community for peer‐to‐peer interaction with no mediator. A total of 121 pregnant women were assigned to either experimental or control group. Data were collected from May 2012–January 2015 using five instruments related to pregnant women's well‐being. Results Significant differences on pregnant women's well‐being were not found between groups. However, higher adherence to the virtual community was significantly related to first‐time pregnant women and women whose pregnancy was assisted by a technology treatment. Conclusions Nurses and midwifes are recommended to pay more attentions on first‐time pregnant women and women whose pregnancy was assisted by a technology treatment regarding their pregnancy‐related concerns. Trial registration number ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03692923.