Effect of Home-Based Education Program on Mothers’ Postpartum Quality of Life After Cesarean Delivery

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a home-based educational program on postpartum quality of life in puerperant women after caesarean delivery. The study was designed as a prospective, controlled, single-blinded study. It was conducted in a family health centre in Istanbul with 60 women, including 30 home-based educational group and 30 standard counselling as a control group woman who had a caesarean delivery. The study data were collected by using a questionnaire, namely, the Maternal Postpartum Quality of Life (MAPP-QOL) Tool. The mothers’s mean age was 29.55 years. The post- intervention means and standard deviations (SDs) in the total scores of the MAPP-QOL were 17.93 (SD: 1.09) and 19.27 (SD: 0.90) for the control and home-based education groups, respectively, and we found that the difference was statistically significant (p