[How to prepare the back home with baby in the maternal education programs in Madrid]

Abstract

Justification: To improve maternal and child health is important to work the postpartum familiar reorganization in the maternal education programs.

Objectives: To know the scientific evidence of the postnatal care. To look for a framework for nursing. To explore the educative strategies that midwives use in maternal education in Madrid (Spain).

Methods: Review of the evidence of prenatal and postnatal cares. Review of nursing models. Qualitative study. Probabilistic sample about 42 midwives of Primary Attention in Madrid that delivered programs of Maternal Education in 2011. Deep interviews. Interviews were coded and classified according to the method ofe based theory) through constant comparative analysis. Ethic and legal considerations.

Results: 14 clinic guides, 10 revisions and thousand of articles about postpartum care found. A theory of middle range found that allows to base nursing work in the familiar reorganization. 100% of midwives approached the topic and considered it very important. 36% of midwives worked with a case; 27% invited parents to a class; 14% showed the topic to pregnant woman; 11% used group dynamics; 7% through colloquium and 5% used cinema material. They did not use conceptual frameworks, neither specific evaluations, nor homework.

Conclusion: Data allow us to know the scientific evidence, the approach that is performed in maternal education and new investigation proposals to offer care of high quality.