Traditional practices to women during pregnancy, birth and after birth and reasons
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Tarih
2012
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Drunpp-Sarajevo
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Özet
Objective: The purpuse of this article is to determine the traditional practices of women during pregnancy, birth and after-birth. Methods: Research conducted retrospective and descriptive survey. Data were collected using a purposefully designed questionnaire. The data gathered from two village health clinics in Aydin-Cine and Mezitli-Mersin, Turkey. The research sample were composed 245 mothers (120 from Mezitli, 125 from Cine), all of whom had given birth to at least one live baby. The research sample were choosen randomly. Results: The youngest child of mothers was between 0-3yrs. One hundred and ninety eight (81 %) had attended antenatal care, 235 (96%) had given birth in hospital. One hundred and seventy-six (71.8%) reported using traditional practices in pregnancy, the most frequently used being "as yerme" (distinguished meal or food) (117, 47.0%). 98.37% of mother did not explain what these were. When needed, mothers preferred their mothers or mother-in-laws during pregnancy about care by 66.5%. One hundred and twenty-eight (52.2%) could not explain the rationale for some of the nutritional practices in pregnancy. The mothers reported seeking help with child care from doctors (185, 75.5%), midwives (154, 62.8%) and nurses (54, 22.0%). The mothers had also sought help from their own mothers or from their relatives. They preferred not to tell health professionals (137, 56%), the main reason being (94, 39.2%) that the professionals did not approve. Conclusions: Whilst most of the traditional practices were not harmful leaving women in the care of their relatives may leave an open door for harmful traditional practices. Midwives, nurses, and doctors need to provide health education in a more sensitive way in order to meet the needs of pregnant and post-birth women and children. They should also consider providing health education to the whole family not just the childbearing woman.
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Traditional practices, pregnancy, labour, postpartum periods
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Healthmed
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Cilt
6
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