Adıyaman Üniversitesi Kurumsal Arşivi

Traditional postpartum practices of women and infants and the factors influencing such practices in South Eastern Turkey

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dc.contributor.author Geçkil, Emine
dc.contributor.author Şahin, Türkan
dc.contributor.author Ege, Emel
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-22T08:19:37Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-22T08:19:37Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.identifier.issn 0266-6138
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.adiyaman.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/20.500.12414/2589
dc.description.abstract Objective: to gain an understanding of traditional postpartum practices for women and babies, and to investigate the factors influencing such practices. Design: descriptive study. Setting: Maternity and Children's Hospital in Adiyaman city, Turkey. Participants: 273 women who gave birth at the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Adiyaman city from March to June 2004. Findings: more than half of the 273 women (55.7%) were aged between 25 and 32 years (mean 27.85, standard deviation [SD] 5.45). A total of 22.3% of women were illiterate, and most were unemployed. The most popular practices among new mothers were eating a kind of dessert, called 'Bulamac' (82.8%). A number of women (69.6%) drank a mixture of grape molasses and butter, 64.5% had their abdomen tightly wrapped, 62.6% were not left atone at home, and more than half of the women (57.9%) avoided sexual intercourse for 40 days after giving birth. Nearly, half of the women (45.4%) fed their babies with water containing sugar just after the birth, and 77.1% of women kept their babies' umbilical cord in a special place. Afterwards, the mothers threw the cords into a river or they buried them in the grounds of a mosque or a school. Most of the mothers (89%) reported that they covered their babies with a yellow cloth in order to protect them from jaundice. A relationship between traditional postpartum practices and demographic characteristics of women was observed. The women's mothers and mothers-in-law (66.7%) usually encouraged such practices. Key conclusions: postpartum care of women and their babies are important cultural practices. Some of these practices may have harmful effects on women and their babies. Implications for practice: it is important to gain an understanding of cultural beliefs and traditional practices relating to the postpartum care of women and their babies. Midwives and nurses should discuss these findings and their implications when they educate new mothers and their families about contemporary methods of postnatal maternal and infant care. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. tr
dc.language.iso en tr
dc.publisher Elsevier Sci Ltd tr
dc.subject Traditional practices in Turkey tr
dc.subject Midwifery-nursery tr
dc.subject Postpartum period tr
dc.subject Women Infants tr
dc.title Traditional postpartum practices of women and infants and the factors influencing such practices in South Eastern Turkey tr
dc.type Article tr
dc.contributor.authorID 0000-0003-3947-285X tr
dc.contributor.authorID 0000-0001-6637-1873 tr
dc.contributor.department Adıyaman Üniversitesi/Sağlık Yüksekokulu/Hemşirelik Bölümü tr
dc.contributor.department Selçuk Üniversitesi/Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi/Hemşirelik Bölümü tr
dc.identifier.endpage 71 tr
dc.identifier.issue 1 tr
dc.identifier.startpage 62 tr
dc.identifier.volume 25 tr
dc.source.title Midwifery tr


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