2 Patients and methods
2.1 Methods
2.1.1 Design and sample
It was a quasi-experimental desing conducted in order to determine the effect of home care services given to the women
who were early discharged from the hospital after cesarean delivery upon mother health. The population of the research
was made up by the women who gave birth by cesarean delivery and were treated at the post-operative unit at Birth and
Child Care Hospital between the 10th of June, 2008 and 10th of April, 2009. The number of the participants to be assigned
to experimental group and control group was calculated through the formula of the ratio obtained from two independent
groups or sample size estimation to determine the difference between two rates. This formula provided us with the suitable sample size which was necessary to study whether there was a difference between ratio and percentages obtained from the two independent groups (maternal problems) in terms of a qualitative variable (home care service). According to the formula, the sample of the research was consisted of 140 women who gave birth by cesarean delivery (70 women were assigned to intervention group and other 70 to control group). Women who spent a pregnancy period with complications, who developed complications during cesarean delivery, who developed complications after cesarean delivery or whose
baby developed complications after cesarean delivery or those who had such chronic diseases as heart diseases,
hypertension, diabetes, renal diseases were excluded from the research since we thought these would affect the results of
the research. Only those who gave birth by cesarean delivery and accepted to participate in the research voluntarily were
included in the research.While determining the groups, women were first grouped according to the characteristics (age