TY  - JOUR
T1  - Antenatal classes for pregnant Syrian women on maternal health outcomes
AU  - Orgel, Fatma
AU  - Ay, Merve
PY  - 2020
DA  - October
JF  - International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies
JO  - IRMRS
PB  - Gaziantep University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2757-5594
SP  - 12
EP  - 22
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Alliance of International Doctors (AID), Esenler Maternity and Child Health Hospital (EMCHH) implemented an educational project on pregnancy and maternal health targeting pregnant Syrian women in Esenler District of Istanbul. The Project aims were increasing health literacy, service utilization and social integration among the pregnant Syrian women. The Project carried out with twelve groups for twelve months. Each group had twelve or fifteen women trained for six hours within a month and reached to a hundred seventy women between October 2017 and October 2018. The Motherhood school was practiced in EMCHH. A hundred twenty four women of participants filled in-person satisfaction surveys. Data was obtained from seventy seven women about their delivery experiences through phone surveys. Eighty postnatal home visits were conducted by medical voluntary teams who observed general health of mothers and babies along with the mothers’ knowledge and practices. According to the results, twenty three point four percent of the participants were under eighteen years old and eight point nine percent were above thirty five years old. Eighteen point eight percent had four or more pregnancies. Of the hundred twenty four survey participants, a hundred eighteen visited EMCHH for antenatal care, a hundred twenty three reported high satisfaction and benefits with the trainings and a hundred twenty two reported satisfaction with its scope. High awareness and practice of breastfeeding, vaccination and contraceptive use were observed during postnatal visits.
KW  - Syrian refugees
KW  - women health
KW  - maternal health
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - motherhood
KW  - antenatal classes
CR  - Reference 1: Gaziantep University Institute for Migration
CR  - Reference 2 :the Syrian Refugee Conference in Gaziantep
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/irmrs/issue//675009
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/931518
ER  -