title: The effectiveness of family planning education on acceptance of contraception by postpartum mothers.
abstract: A prospective controlled study on the maternity service of the American University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, tested the effect of family planning education during the postpartum lying-in period on recruiting contraceptive acceptors. The study further determined how women with different socio-demographic backgrounds, life styles, and levels of readiness for the practice of family planning responded to the educational program. The results revealed that a postpartum educational effort could almost double family planning acceptance among women who returned to the postpartum clinic within the first 9 weeks after delivery and that the educational impact was evident irrespective of the respondents' socio-demographic characteristics, life styles, and levels of readiness for family planning.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007861:Lebanon; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors