The Effect of Delivery Preparation Counselling on the Pregnant Women's Satisfaction in the Educational-Medical Fatemieh Hospital in Hamadan in 2015

Background The satisfaction of the pregnant women is one of the crucial variables in measuring the quality of health cares. The current study was conducted to compare the satisfaction of the pregnant women referring to the prenatal clinic of Hamadan Fatemieh Hospital in 2014-2015 as far as consultation for delivery preparation and routine cares were concerned.
Materials & Methods This study is a clinical trial research in which the pregnant women referring to the mentioned clinic, 170 were selected randomly and were assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received consultation for delivery preparation during 8 sessions from 20-36 wk of pregnancy; While the control group was exposed to only routine pregnancy cares. The instruments used to collect the data were the questionnaire of demographic characteristics and a researher-made questionnaire regarding pregnant women’s satisfaction of consultation for delivery preparation. The data were analyzed using SPSS, version 19, with Chi-Squre, and Fisher’s Exact Test, and P was considered to be significant at the level of 0.05.
Results The results of data analysis showed that the experimental group’s mean score on satisfaction 93.76 (6.93) was significantly (PConclusion The findings of the study indicate that the consultation for delivery preparation had positive effect on the pregnant women’s satisfaction. Thus, more consultation sessions for delivery preparation are suggested to be held in the clinical centers.