Effectiveness of Educational Program on Nurses-Midwives’ Preventive Measures about Puerperal Sepsis at Baghdad Maternity Hospitals

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the educational program on nurses-midwives’ preventive
measures about puerperal sepsis.
Method: quasi-experimental study design carried among 60 Nurses and Midwives chosen by non-probability
sample (purposive sample) at maternity hospitals. The data collected by the observation checklist Pretest
and posttest after the implementation of the educational program. Data were analyzed using descriptive
statistical data analysis approach of frequency, percentage, mean, mean of scores, a total of scores, range
and standard deviation and inferential statistical data analysis approach T-test, multiple linear regressions,
person correlation coefficient, and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Results: (35.3%) of them at age 20-29 years old, (75%) of them had secondary nursing school graduate level
of education and (35%) of them had 11-15 years of services in the nursing field. there is a highly significant
difference at P < 0.01 between the initial period of Pretest and posttest of the study sample preventive
measures toward puerperal sepsis. The grand mean at pretest was (1.69) and at posttest (2.38). There is a
statistically significant difference between years of service and preventive measures at posttest and Pretest
of the educational program at (p-value > 0.05).
Conclusion: there is an improvement in the nurses-midwives’ preventive measures level at the periods of
tests after the implementation of the educational program.