An Implementation Of Postnatal Education Toward The Perception About Self Care On Immediately And Early Postpartum Period Of Postpartum Mothers And Their Families In Jember

Abstract

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is one of the important indicators for assessing the health of society rate in a country. MMR is considerably high in Indonesia compared with other ASEAN countries. One of the MMR factors is that the mothers' perception about self care during the postpartum period does not go optimally yet. To solve the problem, it requires one of the ways by giving postnatal education which focuses on the postpartum mothers by including their families as social support. This research was conducted in dr. Soebandi Hospital, Jember, and the area of Kaliwates Health Center, Jember on March 16 to June 30, 2015. Pre- experiment method was used for the research design to analyze the influences of postnatal education toward the perception about self care on immediately and early postpartum period to the postpartum mothers and their families. The data was collected by giving the intervention of education about postpartum self care to the postpartum mothers and their families through media of booklets and module to 100 respondents chosen by using purposive sampling. The result of this research confirmed that the perception of the postpartum mothers and their families about 'early and immediately period self care' with coeficient α = 0,05 from 'p value' for each was 0,00. It means that there is a significant influence of postnatal education toward the perception about self care on early and immediately period of the postpartum mothers and their families. This research is highly recommended in accordance with postnatal education which can be applied as optimal strategy for 'competent mothering', especially for self care to prevent from sort of complications during postpartum.