The Effect of Education Given to Postpartum Women on Their Attitudes Towards Childhood Vaccinations and Breastfeeding

Introduction:Breastfeeding and childhood vaccinations are the two most important public health practices for the healthy growth and development of the newborn. Although vaccination is one of the most effective and most successful health protection-improvement practices, the cases of vaccine refusal that emerged after 1990 in the world and after 2010 in our country, which increased rapidly, constitute a serious global problem in terms of vaccine-preventable epidemics. is doing. The number of anti-vaccination families has been increasing in recent years. The number of families who do not want to be vaccinated, which was around 1400 in 2014 in our country, is more than 23000 in 2017. If this increase continues like this, it is likely that social immunity will deteriorate and epidemics will occur in the following years. Despite all vaccination campaigns in the world, an average of 1.5 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Aim:To investigate the effects of comprehensive training to be given to post-partum women who have just given birth in Amasya University Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Training and Research Hospital, obstetrics and gynecology service, on their attitudes towards childhood vaccinations and breastfeeding.

Method:This research is in the type of repetitive measurement experimental design with pre-test post-test control group.

The research will consist of newly delivered post-partum women in Amasya University Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Training and Research Hospital gynecology and obstetrics service between 14 March 2022 and September 2023. The universe of the research will consist of all post-partum women who gave birth in the hospital where the research was conducted at the time of the research. The sample consisted of 30 experimental and 30 control groups selected from the universe by computer-assisted randomization method. The experimental group was hospitalized on the first day after birth, on the 2nd-7th day. days and 30-42. Trainings on breastfeeding and childhood vaccinations will be given three times in total by making home visits. The training content has been prepared by taking into account the Ministry of Health Breastfeeding Guide, the Ministry of Health's vaccination schedule, and the Primary Care Vaccination Guide. The trainings will be given to the post-partum women individually. About 30 minutes of training will be given and their questions, if any, will be answered. Then, data collection tools will be applied when the babies are 2,4,6 months old (posttest).

Conclusion:

This study will enable the comprehensive education to be given to post-partum women who have just given birth in the hospital, to improve their attitudes towards childhood vaccines and to increase the breastfeeding rate. It is thought that the results of the study will support the post-partum women, physically, socially and culturally and will guide the programs that will improve the newborns and post-partum women healths.

Inclusion criteria

• Literate
• 18 and over years old
• Those who volunteered to participate in the study women who do not have communication and mental difficulties

Exclusion criteria

• Those who do not fill out the entire questionnaire
• Having a newborn's disease
• Having a postpartum depression