A creative and practical approach to postpartum discharge education: Pecha Kucha training via smart phone

Abstract

In this study, we aim to determine the effect of discharge education provided with the Pecha Kucha method using smartphones on the levels of feeling of being ready for postpartum discharge and anxiety. This is a randomized controlled experimental study. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04696991. We assigned the participants to the experimental (70) and control (70) groups through the permuted block randomization method. We collected the data using Personal Information Form, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale–New Mother Form (RHDS-NMF). The experimental group obtained significantly higher scores from the STAI and RHDS-NMF (p < 0.05). Today especially during the period of the pandemic in which contact tracing and social distancing are highly important, such a type of discharge education is also of importance for reducing the duration spent and the physical contact established by people indoors. According to the results of our research, this method can be a good alternative to routine discharge education.

Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2022.2043860 .

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the participants who agreed to participate in this study for their contribution.

Author contributions

CRediT author statement

Cigdem GUN KAKASCI: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing - Original draft preparation, Visualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing - Reviewing and Editing.

Aysegul DURMAZ: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Data curation, Writing - Original draft preparation, Visualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing - Reviewing and Editing.

Disclosure statement

The authors reported no potential conflict of interest.

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.