Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is one of the most important, critical and at the same time glorious periods in every woman's life that the male involvement plays an important role in promoting prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum care and health of both mother and infant. The aim...
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| author | M Motlagh F Torkestani H Ashrafian Amiri SM Rabiee L Radpooyan SD Nasrollahpour Shirvani M Agajani Delavar |
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| description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is one of the most important, critical and at the same time glorious periods in every woman's life that the male involvement plays an important role in promoting prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum care and health of both mother and infant. The aim of this study was to determine the level of male involvement in these periods in Iran.
METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in six provinces of Iran in 2015. Totally, 2788 mothers with a history of childbirth between 2-6 months were randomly selected for classification. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire containing 34 individual, family and environmental questions and 17 ones were related to the male involvement based on Likert scale with the score of 1-5. Mean higher than 3.5 was considered as higher than average or sufficient involvement. The data were simultaneously collected from health records and through interviews with mothers.
FINDINGS: The mean age of 2713 mothers under study was 27.7±5.5 years. From the mothers’ point of view, the mean of men's involvement was 3.60±0.72 from at least 0.71 to at most 5.0. The minimum and maximum participations were observed in training class and dealing rationally with the mothers’ weakness and faintness (2.5±1.6) and (4.4±0.9), respectively. There was a significant relationship between men's participation and mother's occupation, husband's education, number of pregnancies and children, unwanted pregnancy, bad memories of postpartum period and the areas of maternal death (P<0.05).
CONCLUSION: The results showed that Iranian husbands' involvement in prenatal care, childbirth and postpartum has the acceptable level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c603a87fc9c740fca09bce889dc49bbd2022-12-21T19:58:06ZengBabol University of Medical SciencesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul1561-41072251-71702017-05-011952331Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the MothersM Motlagh0F Torkestani1H Ashrafian Amiri2SM Rabiee3L Radpooyan4SD Nasrollahpour Shirvani5M Agajani Delavar6 Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Science, Ahvaz, I.R.Iran Faculty of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, I.R.Iran Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, I.R.Iran Cancer Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R.Iran Department of Health, Ministry of health, Tehran, I.R.Iran Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, I.R.Iran Fatemeh-Zahra Infertility& Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R.Iran BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is one of the most important, critical and at the same time glorious periods in every woman's life that the male involvement plays an important role in promoting prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum care and health of both mother and infant. The aim of this study was to determine the level of male involvement in these periods in Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in six provinces of Iran in 2015. Totally, 2788 mothers with a history of childbirth between 2-6 months were randomly selected for classification. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire containing 34 individual, family and environmental questions and 17 ones were related to the male involvement based on Likert scale with the score of 1-5. Mean higher than 3.5 was considered as higher than average or sufficient involvement. The data were simultaneously collected from health records and through interviews with mothers. FINDINGS: The mean age of 2713 mothers under study was 27.7±5.5 years. From the mothers’ point of view, the mean of men's involvement was 3.60±0.72 from at least 0.71 to at most 5.0. The minimum and maximum participations were observed in training class and dealing rationally with the mothers’ weakness and faintness (2.5±1.6) and (4.4±0.9), respectively. There was a significant relationship between men's participation and mother's occupation, husband's education, number of pregnancies and children, unwanted pregnancy, bad memories of postpartum period and the areas of maternal death (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: The results showed that Iranian husbands' involvement in prenatal care, childbirth and postpartum has the acceptable level.http://jbums.org/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1604-5&slc_lang=en&sid=1Men's involvement Husbands' involvement Prenatal care Postpartum care Viewpoints of the mothers Iran |
| spellingShingle | M Motlagh F Torkestani H Ashrafian Amiri SM Rabiee L Radpooyan SD Nasrollahpour Shirvani M Agajani Delavar Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul Men's involvement Husbands' involvement Prenatal care Postpartum care Viewpoints of the mothers Iran |
| title | Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers |
| title_full | Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers |
| title_fullStr | Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers |
| title_short | Iranian Husbands\' Involvement in Prenatal Care, Childbirth and Postpartum: Viewpoints of the Mothers |
| title_sort | iranian husbands involvement in prenatal care childbirth and postpartum viewpoints of the mothers |
| topic | Men's involvement Husbands' involvement Prenatal care Postpartum care Viewpoints of the mothers Iran |
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