Objective: The purpose of the present research was to examine the effect of cesarean postpartum discharge training on the readiness of the mothers to the discharge.
Materials and Methods: The research was performed as a randomized controlled trial at the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Denizli State Hospital between January 2016 and October 2016. The research included a total of 224 mothers who gave birth by cesarean, with 110 mothers in the training group and 114 mothers in the control group. Discharge training was given to the mothers of the training group on the first day after birth, and the booklets that were prepared after training were delivered to them. Data were gathered by “Personal Information Form” and “Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale-New Mother Form.” In the analysis of data, descriptive statistics, chi-square, Student’s t, Mann–Whitney U, and Fisher’s exact tests were used.
Results: It was identified that the social–demographic and obstetrical characteristics and the characteristics regarding their babies and the characteristics of the postpartum period of the mothers in the training and control groups were similar. According to the total scale score of the “Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale-New Mother Form,” it was identified that the mothers in the training group (176.61±22.423) had higher score than the mothers in the control group (169.94±26.093), and that the difference between them was statistically significant (t=2.049, p=0.042). It was found that information and skill subdimension scores from the scale subdimension scores of the “Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale-New Mother Form” were higher for the mothers in the training group than for the mothers in the control group (U=4237.000, p=0.000 and t=2.010, p=0.046, respectively), and that no difference was found between the subdimension scores of the personal situation and the expected support (t=0.485, p=0.628 and U=5785.500, p=0.312, respectively).
Conclusion: According to the results of our work, it was determined that the discharge training during the postpartum period positively affected the readiness of the mothers to the discharge.
Cite this article as: Güleç T, Çoban A. The Effect of Discharging of Cesarean Postpartum Discharge Training on the Readiness of the Mothers to the Discharge. Journal of Health Science and Profession 2019; 6(3): 461-9.