Effect of structured preoperative teaching on mobility for women who have undergone elective cesarean section

The current practice of unstructured preoperative teaching for elective cesarean section patients' lacks instructions on mobility. The aim of this quasi experimental study was to determine if the independent variable (preoperative structured teaching) enabled patients to have higher scores for mobility (dependent variable) than the control group. Study subjects were 128 women equally divided into an experimental and control group. Findings: The experimental group performed more breathing, coughing and leg exercises through out the three days. They also turned more than the control group on the operative day and the first post operative day; sat up in bed more often on the operative day and ambulated to toilet more often on the second post operative day (p=