Puerperal women’s knowledge on newborn’s body hygiene

Silva, Maria Paula Custódio; Fonseca, Luciana Mara Monti; Ruiz, Mariana Torreglosa; Araújo, Gilberto Pereira de; Rocha, Jesislei Bonolo do Amaral; Contim, Divanice

doi:10.1590/1806-9304202300000187-en

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES • Rev. Bras. Saude Mater. Infant. 23 • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9304202300000187-en copy

Puerperal women’s knowledge on newborn’s body hygiene

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Abstract

Objectives:

to identify puerperal women’s knowledge attending the housing unit at a teaching hospital about newborn body hygiene after receiving routine guidance from the nursing team.

Methods:

cross-sectional study, carried out with 207 puerperal women from a teaching hospital in the Minas Gerais State between December 2018 and May 2019. For data collection, an instrument was built and validated following three phases and descriptive statistics and linear correlation were used of Spearman’s, with a confidence level of 95% for knowledge analysis.

Results:

207 puerperal women participated in the study, with a mean age of 27 ± 6.3 years. Inadequate knowledge was observed, mainly regarding the sequence of cleaning the face and scalp, adequate products and hygiene of the nose, ear and mouth. The domain “before the bath” presented the highest average percentage of correct questions (94.0%±10.1), including care with the environment, temperature and intimate hygiene.

Conclusion:

the identification of inadequate knowledge about the newborn’s body hygiene raises the need for constant and more effective guidelines, with the use of active methodologies starting in prenatal care.

Key words:
Baths; Infant; newborn; Mothers; Knowledge

Categorical variables	N	%
Martial status
Has a parnter	143	69.1
Does not have a partner	64	30.9
Schooling
Incomplete high school	32	15.5
Complete high school	73	35.3
Incomplete elementary school	61	29.5
Complete elementar school	29	14.0
Incomplete higher education	8	3.9
Complete higher education	4	1.9
Work
Paid occupational activities	139	67.1
Unpaid occupational activities	68	32.9
Family support network
Mother	97	46.9
Partner	55	26.6
Mother in law	35	16.9
Sibling	29	14.0
Children	11	5.3
Grandmother	10	4.8
Sister in law	10	4.8
Neighbor	8	3.9
Prenatal care
Public service	189	91.3
Public service/private	14	6.8
Private service	4	1.9

Item	Domain	Answer
	Before the bath, your opinion	Correct		Incorrect
	Before the bath, your opinion	N	%	N	%
1	Is it important to gather the necessary materials, such as clothes, diaper, towel, soap?	207	100	0	0
2	Is it important to organize the materials in a safe place?	203	98.1	4	1.9
3	Is it important to check that doors and windows are closed it is important to check that doors and windows are closed?	197	95.2	10	4.8
4	if the baby is crying, it is important to console him completely before starting the bath?	160	77.3	47	22.77
5	Is it important to check the water temperature with the inside of the arm?	200	96.6	7	3.4
6	Is it important to perform intimate hygiene on the baby before putting him in water when he has soiled feces?	204	98.5	3	1.5
	% hits: $(X ¯ \pm SD)$	94.0±10.1
	During the bath, your opinion
7	Should the baby enter the water slowly?	185	89.4	22	10.6
8	Is it important to start the bath by washing the baby's hair and face while still out of the tub?	50	24.2	157	75.8
9	Is it important to clean the eyes from the inside out, using a cotton ball with water in each eye?	153	73.9	54	26.1
10	Is it important to slowly place the baby in clean warm water, and wash the neck, upper limbs, back and lower limbs?	198	95.7	9	4.3
11	Is it important to clean the umbilical stump with soap and water?	158	76.3	49	23.7
12	Is it important during the girl’s intimate hygiene to wash front to back, from vaginal to rectal area?	174	84.1	33	15.9
13	Is it important during the boy’s intimate hygiene wash the tip and the body of the penis with clean water?	190	91.8	17	8.2
	% hits: $(X ¯ \pm SD)$	76.0±16.3
	After the bath, in your opinion
14	Is it important to dry the baby's skin and folds with compressive and gentle movements, without rubbing?	204	98.6	3	1.4
15	Is it important to lift the entire umbilical stump and clean the base with the tip of the diaper-cloth or flexible swabs (cotton swab)	207	100	0	0
16	should the diaper be below the umbilical stump?	41	19.8	166	80.2
17	Is it important to clean the baby's nostrils with the tip of the bath towel?	172	83.1	35	16.9
18	Is it important to clean the ears with the index finger wrapped in the bath towel moistened with water?	181	87.8	26	12.2
19	after the bath is it important to put the baby to breastfeed?	179	86.5	28	13.5
	% hits: $(X ¯ \pm SD)$	79.0±14.5
	General care, in your opinion
20	Should the cleaning of the umbilical stump should be performed at every diaper change until it falls off?	200	96.6	7	3.4
21	Is it important to perform hygiene of the baby's mouth with the index finger wrapped in the clean bath towel or a gauze with filtered water?	169	81.6	38	18.4
22	Is it important to cut the baby’s nails?	196	94.7	11	5.3
23	on hot days, is it necessary for the baby to take more than one bath, only in one bath should use soap?	98	47.3	109	52.7
	% hits: $(X ¯ \pm SD)$	80.0±18.9
	Attitudes on baby’s bath, in your opinion
24	Should use neutral soap for the baby’s bath?	174	84.1	33	15.9
25	Can soap with smells harm the baby’s skin?	140	67.6	67	32.4
26	Can perfume harm the baby’s skin?	186	89.9	21	10.1
27	Can powder harm the baby’s skin?	100	48.3	107	51.7
28	Shouls use oils/moisterizers to hydrate baby’s skin after bathing?	110	53.1	97	46.9
29	Is it important to speak/sing for the baby while he/she plays?	197	95.,2	10	4.8
	% hits: $(X ¯ \pm SD)$	73.0±17.9

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