Adherence To Immediate Postpartum Care Guidelines Among Jordanian Health Care Professionals: Narrative Review

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to integrate evidence on adherence to immediate postnatal care provided to women after birth among health
care professionals, and to identify gaps in the previous studies for building new knowledge for further researches.
Design: A narrative literature review. Electronic database searching strategy was used, including Web of Sciences, SAGE, CINAHL,
PubMed and Jordanian Database for Nursing Research databases were used to search the literature.
Findings: A total of 320 articles were retrieved. After duplicates removal, 200 articles were screened for titles and abstracts. There were
80 relevant articles that underwent full-text screening, of which 32 were found eligible to be included in the review. The studies were
summarized under 3 themes; adherence to immediate postpartum care among health care professionals (n=24), Adherence to IPPCGs
in Arab countries (n=5), Adherence to IPNCGs among healthcare professionals in Jordan (n=3).
Paper type: Literature review