Preferences and related factors for postpartum contraception in pregnant women

Background: The postpartum period is a time of transition for a pregnant woman and her new family. In this period many pregnant women are in search about the family planning methods. But contraceptive options differ depending on women’s desires such as cultural and religious believes, partner attitudes, previous contraceptive experiences. Objective: This study was conducted to identify status of using a contraceptive method before pregnancy and the factors associated with preferences of contraception in postpartum period. Materials and Methods: The descriptive research was conducted in a State Hospital March-May 2012 in Turkey. The population of study was formed with 200 pregnant women who applied follow-up pregnant clinics. We took permissions from local authorities and participants. 182 voluntary pregnant women were surveyed. We prepared a 20 item question are form which was asking socio-demographic futures, contraceptives methods before-after delivery and the factors related with using contraceptives after screening literatures related with subject. Results: The 49.5% of women reported that they didn’t use any methods before. There was a significant relation between using contraceptives before pregnancy with the idea of using contraceptive during the postpartum period and receiving contraception counseling during pregnancy (p=0.004, p=0.035 respectively). Conclusion: The 86.4% of pregnant implied that they would use a contraceptive method in postpartum period. IUD was the most preferred method. Status of using contraceptive before and receiving contraception counseling in pregnancy were the effective variables on thoughts about using a contraceptive method. To achieve desired goals for maternal and child health in our country health professionals should be more focused on postpartum contraception in antenatal care programs

Herbal products utilization knowledge and attitudes of Turkish adults

Background: This study was aimed to determine utilization, knowledge and attitudes of Turkish adults on herbal products.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a Turkey city-Çorum with 600 adults aged between 18-85 during June 2015. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on demographics, and general knowledge, experiences and attitudes about herbal products.Results: Of these responses, 67.3% of were women and 32.7% were men; 34.7% were aged 35-49 years with the mean age of 33.7. The 14.2% had any chronic disease and of these 38.8% were suffering from cardiovascular disease and hypertension. The overall utilization of herbal products was 55.7%. Most common health issues treated via HPs by respondents were found to be intestinal illness and losing weight. Responses had predominantly negative but sophisticated attitudes towards to herbal products. Women were more likely to be users with the increased risk of 1.9 times higher than men. Also family size, chronic conditon and current medication use were significant predictors of herbal produts use. Herbal product use was significantly higher in responses who had “moderate-bad” health perception. Among the attitudes, attitude -7 and attitude -11 were the other strongest factors on herbal product use.Conclusions: The present study confirms previous findings and provides additional evidence that using herbal products among Turkish adults is still prevalent with the lack of information and semi-positive attitudes

Health promoting behaviors in ındustrial workers

AIM: The aim of this study was to determine healthy lifestyle behaviors of workers at an industrial enterprise and to reveal interventions to protect workers from risky behaviors. METHODS: This descriptive research was conducted between the October-November 2013 in a sement factory in Corum. The population of study was consisted from 110 workers and completed by volunteer 83 workers. To evaluate workers and #8217; healthy lifestyle behaviors, Health Promotion Life-Style Profile-II was used. In statistical analysis we used independent t test and One-Way Anova (Post-hoc Tukey) test. RESULTS: The average scores obtained from the scale was found 2.42+/-0.39. It was identified that workers took the highest scores from the subscale of spiritual growth and the lowest scores from the subscale of physical activity. Scores obtained from the scale showed significant difference according to age of onset to business life and duration of work experience (p<0.05). It was seen that workers had higher scores from the total and subscale who had and #8217;nt any health problems continuously, who did and #8217;nt drink any alcoholic beverages in last one year and who had normal body mass index (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Health promoting behaviors were found to be in moderate level among cement factory workers. In our country, health protection and development programs at the national level would be useful to standardize for employees in the industrial sector. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2015; 14(2.000): 153-162