EVALUATING THE ROLE OF PREGNANT WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN PRENATAL EDUCATION CLASSES IN CHOOSING THE TYPE OF DELIVERY IN ZANJAN HOSPITALS

Amount of Cesareans (CS) operation has increased recently among the pregnant
women. Due to some reasons such as: after-operation-complications, long convalescence, the high cost
of CS operation and easy-acceptance by most of the people, and etc, the natural delivery is
recommended. Regarding the above mentioned reasons, it seems that improvement of pregnant women's
attitude and medical staff is an efficient factor in choosing the suitable way of delivery.
Material & Methods: For this purpose 80 women participated in the study and assigned to two groups
of 40 in control and experimental group. Data gathered by a questionnaire. The reliability of this
questionnaire was verified by experts and its validity was confirmed by Cronbakh Alpha (0.7). The
research methodology was semi experimental, and data collected by using questionnaire before and after
delivery training courses, and SPSS 21 was used for analyzing the gathered data .Test of and one
sample T test were conducted after confirming validity and reliability.
Results: Regarding the (2-5) table, we conclude that among the attendance of prenatal education classes
8 people (20%) had CS and 32 (80%) chose natural delivery (ND). Comparing none-attendant mothers,
25 people (62/5%) chose CS and 15 people (37/5%) chose ND. Table (2-5) and test show
significance level (p= 0/00) and below 0/05. Therefore, there is a relationship between attending to the
classes and choosing ND way.
Conclusion: This research shows that education and attending in Prenatal Education Classes (classes of
preparation for delivery) have significant effects on choosing of suitable delivery way among pregnant
women