Prenatal Education: Enduring and Essential

Comparing CenteringPregnancy® to standard prenatal care plus prenatal education

BACKGROUND There is significant evidence to support the importance of prenatal care in preventing adverse outcomes such as preterm birth and low infant birth weight. Previous studies have indicated that the benefits of prenatal care are not evenly distributed throughout the social strata. In addition, emerging evidence suggests that among particular populations, rates of preterm birth are uncha...

Essential Education Standards & Benchmarks

prenatal care and maternal age, education and reproductive behaveour

reproductive behavior of 1525 pregnant woman were studied in the time of termination of pregnancy in relation to maternal age, education, prenatal care and the number of previous pregnancies. the results show that the frequency of maternal attendance at the centers of prenatal care is significantly related to maternal education. and the total pregnancies per woman are inversely correlated with ...

The Effect of Prenatal Care Group Education on Pregnant Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude and Practice

Introduction: Effective prenatal education may play an important role in decreasing diseases and morbidity and therefore promoting mother's health. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of group education (by a standard teaching model) on knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant mothers. Methods: This study was a field trial which was performed on 60 pregnant women in their 6th ...

Highlighting emerging roles and enduring values: information management in nursing education.

This section highlights papers originally presented at an annual meeting of the Medical Library Association as a means of exploring new ways in which librarians are working with nursing faculty and students. These papers examine two roles: collaborating with faculty to develop an integrated curriculum of information management education; and assisting faculty in the comprehensive tracking of ci...