Table 1.

Education sessions for the teach-back group and the control group

Time	Approaches, techniques and tools		Topics	Goals
	Control group	Teach-back Group
The day or the following day of admission before childbirth	Duration: 45mins Group meeting with three women and one educator; power-point presentation; educational video clips; live demonstration; Q&A	Duration: 60mins Group meeting with three women and one educator; power-point presentation; educational video clips; live demonstration; Q&A; teach-back	Birth mode; labor process and pain relief; newborn health and care (common health issues and care skills); perinatal diet and exercise; perinatal psychological health;	To help women understand and prepare for the labor
The day of discharge	Duration: 60mins Group meeting with three women and one educator; power-point presentation; educational video clips; live demonstration; information booklet; Q&A	Duration: 75mins Group meeting with three women and one educator; power-point presentation; educational video clips; live demonstration; information booklet; Q&A; teach-back	Postpartum recovery (e.g. pelvic floor function recovery and muscle training); postpartum maternal health; perineum care (diet, oral care, perineal care, and hygiene); breastfeeding; postpartum blue and depression; neonatal care (e.g. feeding, skin care, infantile touching, umbilical nursing, and neonatal bathing); neonatal screening tests; newborn vaccination; early child development	To help women understand postpartum health issues, get to know the ways of postpartum recovery and learn newborn care skills
Two-week postpartum	Duration: 20mins Individual online discussion with one woman and one educator Q&A;	Duration: 30mins Individual online discussion with one woman and one educator; Q&A; teach-back	No specific education topic was predefined	To help women address raised questions, difficulties and problems of postpartum recover and caring newborn