INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RESPECTING PREGNANT WOMEN TRAINING WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE AND PERFORMANCE OF MIDWIVES

  Increasing abuse of pregnant women has caused health researchers and policymakers to promote respectful pregnancy care during pregnancy, delivery, and after birth. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of implementation of respecting pregnant women training workshop on knowledge and performance of midwives.

In this semi-experimental research with pre- and post-intervention design, a training workshop on respecting the pregnant mother was held for 25 midwives of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Sardasht in 2021. The tool used in the research was a researcher-made questionnaire about the knowledge and performance of midwives in the field of respecting the pregnant mother. The pre-test before the workshop and the post-test two weeks after the end of the workshop were administered to the participating midwives. An educational workshop was held for midwives in the form of scenarios, speeches, and role playing. Data were analyzed using paired t-test in SPSS v.16 software at a significance level of less than 0.05.

The mean and standard deviation of midwives' performance score before the intervention was 124.42±22.517 and after the intervention was 167.29±7.981. The mean and standard deviation of the midwives' knowledge score before the intervention was 14.38±2.039 and after the intervention was 24.17±1.239. The findings showed that the mean score of knowledge and performance of midwives before and after the workshop had significant statistical differences (p<0.0001).

Conducting a training workshop for midwives can be a suitable method to improve the knowledge and performance of midwives in the field of respecting pregnant mothers, and as a result, improving respectful pregnancy care.