[Effect of post-natal visit on the involvement in the activities of the mother-child program].
OBJECTIVE
Ascertain what effect post-natal visits have on recruiting involvement in the mother and child programme of activities. Identify the profile of mothers and children with little involvement in these activities. Ascertain how suitable the register is.


METHODS
Study of cohorts of previous years. The term exposed cohort refers to mothers who received the postnatal visit in 1989, and non-exposed cohort to those who did not receive one. SITE. Health Centres in Almanjáyar and Cartuja. Primary Attention. Evaluation of the services offered.


METHODS
The sample consisted of the 166 women whose pregnancy we monitored from the Centre, and who gave birth between January and December 1989.


RESULTS
The most indicative results show that the group that received the post-natal visit tended to attend the healthy child clinic, family planning and metabolism testing services, with greater frequency, and to breast feed longer. The differences are only significant (p = 0.004) in the case of family planning.


CONCLUSIONS
We positively evaluate the post-natal visit because of its contribution to the early detection of the problems of mother and child, and to recruitment into Family Planning. And because the examining risk has meant that factors associated with reduced coverage by the services (ethnicity, educational level, mother's age) did not act as such in our study.
Vázquez
A M
AM
Centros de Salud de Almanjáyar, Cartuja y Unidad Docente de Huelva.
Toral
I
I
Sánchez Ramos
J L
JL
Gálvez
M
M
D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007229:Infant Welfare; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016730:Program Development / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
Influencia de la visita puerperal en la captación a las actividades del programa maternoinfantil.