effect of electronic education on the awareness of women about post partum breast feeding

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 spss 11.5.  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.