Effect of Electronic Education on the Awareness of Women

Introduction: Electronic education is there to enhance knowledge of patients especially mothers during postpartum and can provide an efficient way to enhance personnel-patient interaction. So, this study was conducted to define the effect of electronic education on the awareness of women about post partum breast feeding education. Materials and Methods: This is a quasi- experimental study conducted on 72 primiparous women during postpartum period referring to Shahid Beheshti Hospital in 2013 . In order to educate the subjects through electronic and paper based methods, the subjects were selected through random allocation. A pre- test before and a post- test after education were conducted with a 15 item questionnaire to measure women’s awareness about breast feeding. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistical tests, and t-test and paired t- test through SPSS11.5. Significance level was considrred (P < 0.05). Results: Mean scores of awareness about postpartum breast feeding after intervention in electronic education and control (paper based) groups were 9.22+0.43 and 13.12+1.2 respectively, which showed a significant difference (P=0.002). Levels of increase of awareness in electronic education and control groups were 128% and 68% respectively. Conclusion: As electronic education method had a higher effect on level of awareness about postpartum breast feeding among mothers compared to paper based method, health providers are suggested to apply this method to increase mothers’ knowledge and to provide them with care.