Assessment of mother-neonatal pair morbidity and its relation to a new scoring indicator in socioeconomic condition of mothers in postpartum period : 1st setellement family health center {u2013}Cairo / Aliaa Hamdy Mohammed Seif Alnasr ; Supervised Mervat Mahmoud Roshdy Elrafie , Marwa Mostafa Said

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicim - Department of Family Medicine

Background: The postpartum period represents a critical time for the mother, her newborn, and her family, on a physiological, emotional and social level yet, it receives relatively less attention if comparing to pregnancy and delivery.Family physician has an important role in providing comprehensive postnatal care for the mother and her family including providing emotional support to facilitate maternal and familial adjustment, preventing, and treating any postnatal complications, counseling on contraception, encouraging breastfeeding (especially exclusive breastfeeding till 6 month), giving instructions about general care of the newborn ( specially when socioeconomic factors as poverty , illiteracy and discrimination faced by both mother and her female children in developing countries are present ) , referring the mother or infant for specialist when necessary and providing much needed guidance and advice to parents and councelling in the development of children that are healthy, and therefore, ready and eager to learn and build the future community. Health education is one of the cornerstones of the basic postnatal care. Aim of the work: Detection of maternal-neonatal morbidities in postpartum period and its relations to socioeconomic status. Methods:In this study 100 maternal-neonatal pairs attending 1st settellment FHC are interviewed and clinically examined to assess their postpartum health status and find if there is relations to their socioeconomic status , assessing their knowledge about breastfeeding and contraception. Results:10% of mothers suffers from PPD associated with major health problems to their newborns and breast engorgement with no association with socioeconomic class. Breastfeeding is less and IUD was the preferred contraceptive method in middle socioeconomic class while injectables is more in low class who preserve breastfeeding

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