AlDughaishi Maha Y K, Matua Gerald Amandu, Seshan Vidya
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
SAGE Open Nurs. 2023 Mar 6;9:23779608231159336. doi: 10.1177/23779608231159336. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.
Antenatal care (ANC) provides an opportunity for systematic assessment and follow-up of pregnant women to ensure positive outcomes for mother and foetus. Pregnant women should be offered evidence-based information with support to enable them to make informed decisions.
To identify the gap between the current practices and the recommended guidelines for antenatal education services in Oman.
A qualitative inquiry was implemented through semistructured in-depth interviews guided by open-ended questions and probes. A purposive non-probability sampling technique was used to select 13 pregnant women who had completed 30 weeks of gestation. The women were selected from 9 antenatal healthcare facilities among them: 7 primary health centers, one polyclinic and one, tertiary hospital.
Antenatal education focused on four thematic areas of safe pregnancy; safe labor and birth; postpartum care; and new-born care. Regarding antenatal education for safe pregnancy, the findings indicate that most healthcare workers provided pregnant women adequate information to promote healthy dietary habits; cope with pregnancy symptoms; recognize and manage medical conditions, and to adhere to dietary supplements and medication. In addition, the findings revealed that the healthcare team did not provide the required antenatal education to meet the pregnant women's needs to ensure they had safe labor and birth, postpartum care, and new-born care.
This study is the first of its kind in Oman to provide baseline data regarding the current antenatal education services from the perspective of pregnant women. These findings will help in developing strategies to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes in the country.
产前护理（ANC）为系统评估和跟踪孕妇提供了机会，以确保母亲和胎儿获得良好结局。应向孕妇提供循证信息并给予支持，使她们能够做出明智的决定。
确定阿曼目前产前教育服务的实践与推荐指南之间的差距。
通过以开放式问题和追问为导向的半结构化深度访谈进行定性调查。采用立意非概率抽样技术，从9家产前保健机构中选取13名妊娠已达30周的孕妇。这些孕妇来自其中的7家初级卫生保健中心、1家综合诊所和1家三级医院。
产前教育集中在安全妊娠、安全分娩和产后护理、新生儿护理这四个主题领域。关于安全妊娠的产前教育，研究结果表明，大多数医护人员向孕妇提供了足够的信息，以促进健康的饮食习惯、应对妊娠症状、识别和处理医疗状况，以及坚持服用膳食补充剂和药物。此外，研究结果显示，医护团队未提供所需的产前教育，以满足孕妇对确保安全分娩、产后护理和新生儿护理的需求。
本研究是阿曼同类研究中的首例，从孕妇的角度提供了有关当前产前教育服务的基线数据。这些研究结果将有助于制定改善该国孕产妇和新生儿结局的策略。
