Effect Of Nutrition And Health Education Intervention On Ruralwomen’s Postpartum Beliefs And Practices

Objective To investigate the effect of the knowledge of nutrition and health education intervention on improving postpartum beliefs and practices.Methods The study design was a randomized controlled trial conducted in a rural area of Shandon, the late pregnancy women were randomly divided into intervention group and control group. Both of them accept the basic knowledge of pregnant women health. The objects of intervention group had accepted the special education of nutritional and health knowledge.Results The awareness rate of most nutritional health knowledge of the intervention group was significantly higher than those in the control group. Women in the intervention group object had itaked more milk, fish, vegetables, lower egg, fruit those in control group. Besides, women in the intervention group object had intaked lower egg(194.51g/d) than those in control group298.2g/d (P<0.05). The proportion of the intervention group subjects in breastfeeding and ventilated everyday (74.4%,59.5%) were significantly higher than those in the control group (67.8%,54.3%).Conclusion Targeted nutritional health education can improve the knowledge level of puerperal women and promote healthy dietary behavior. Therefore, targeted nutritional health and knowledge education should be promoted.