There are some problems in the postpartum requiring knowledge, attitude and practice of the mothers to take care themselves. Objectives: to describe knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on postpartum care at Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province in 2003. Subjects: 195 mothers in postpartum period. Method: crossectional study of the knowledge, attitude and practice on postpatum care. Result: 40% of mothers have good knowledge on postpartum care and 57.4% lack of knowledge on FP in the postpartum period. 50.7% and 59.5% of mothers declaired that it is necessary to use iron and vitamin A in the postpartum period. In fact the percentage of mothers who using vitamin A was 57.4%. The percentage of mothers were using contraceptives was 42.1%. The 72.6% out of 113 mothers had not applied any contraceptive methods because they think pregnancy can not be occurned during postpartum period. Conclusion: It is needed to strengthen the communication and counseling to mothers in order to improve their knowledge, attitude and practice for postpartum care.
Postpartum Period, Mothers, Knowledge, Attitude