Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program upon Midwives’ Knowledge Concerning Use of Partograph during First Stage of Labor in Al-Hilla Hospitals Nattah Fawziya M.1,*, AL-Yasir Amean A.1, Khaleel Muna A.1 1Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hilla City, Iraq *Corresponding author: Fawziya M. Nattah, Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hilla City, Iraq
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract Teaching program prepare nurse midwife to teach laboring women for labor by providing information and practicing that promote women's self-control and may contribute for a satisfactory birthing experience. Therefore, the aim of this study is to improve the knowledge of nurse midwives in a scientific and applicable way by implementing the teaching program that focus on knowledge upon the use of partograph during labor. A quasi-experimental design was carried out throughout the present study during September 26th 2017 to December 20th 2018. A Non-probability (purposive) sample were selected consisted of (50) nurse midwives who worked in delivery rooms in Babylon Teaching Hospitals for Maternity and pediatric who attended the teaching program as the study group and the other group of (25) midwives who were employed in AL-Hilla General Teaching Hospital who did not attend the teaching program and considered as a control group. Data were analyzed through using the descriptive and inferential analysis. The study results revealed that no statistically significant differences in the proportions of participants in both groups who did have previous knowledge about the use of partograph in all comparisons, (P>0.05). Top Keywords Effectiveness, teaching program, Midwives’, knowledge, partograph, first stage. Top |