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The aim of this study was to explore effect of young rural women’s general characteristics on their knowledge and compliance with healthy practices during postpartum period Research design: A descriptive study design was utilized. Setting: This study was conducted in Obstetrics &Gynecological outpatient clinic at Benha University Hospital. Sample: A simple random sample included 183 postpartum women Tools of data collection 1) a structured interviewing sheet to collect data about general characteristics and knowledge of women regarding healthy practices during postpartum period 2) self-reported measures to assess women's compliance with healthy practices during postpartum period .Results: 43.17% of studied women aged from 23 to 25 years with the mean age 22.248 ±1.794. Also 89.86% of studied women had incorrect total knowledge score about postpartum care, 99.28% of them not compliance with health practices about postpartum care. Conclusion: it can be concluded that around the most of studied women had poor knowledge about postpartum care and the majority of them not compliance with health practices about postpartum care. Reveals that, statistically significant relation between general characteristics of young rural women, total knowledge and total practices score toward postpartum care. Also there was a positive highly significant relation between total knowledge score and total practices score. Recommendation: Designing and implementing guidelines, brochure among pregnant women during third trimester and women during postpartum period to raising awareness about the care during postpartum period. Implementing counseling session to enhance women to seek antenatal, labour and postpartum health services.

Background: Preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide, but it is more prevalent in developing countries. Aim was to investigate the effect of implementing continuous care model on health-related behaviors and quality of life among women with preeclampsia. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Outpatient Clinic of Benha University Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample of 70 pregnant women diagnosed with preeclampsia was recruited and divided equally into study and control groups (35 women per group). Tools: Three tools were used to collect data; a structured interviewing questionnaire, health-related behaviors regarding preeclampsia questionnaire, and World Health Organization quality of life-BREF. Results: There was no statistically significant difference between mean scores of health-related behaviors regarding preeclampsia and quality of life before implementation of the continuous care model in both groups (P ˃ 0.05). After implementing the continuous care model, the mean scores of health-related behaviors and quality of life in the study group were significantly higher than in the control group (p ≤ 0.001). A significant positive correlation between total scores of health-related behaviors regarding preeclampsia and quality of life in both groups before and after implementation of continuous care model (P ≤ 0.001). Conclusion: Implementing the continuous care model had a positive effect on improving preeclampsia-related health behaviors and the quality of life for women with preeclampsia. Recommendations: The continuous care model should be incorporated as a nursing intervention for promoting women's health behaviors and improving quality of life within preeclampsia care.