Implications
As health care providers are aiming to reduce the length of postpartum hospital stay, women’s health literacy and self-care competence are becoming increasingly important, which requires effective strategies that can support women not only in understanding complex health information but also in applying this information in everyday life to improve self-care or care skills, build healthy lifestyles and improve health status. Our study supports the use of the teach-back method in perinatal care for women with LMHL to enhance their MHL, leading to positive postpartum health behaviours and improving postpartum maternal-infant health outcomes.While the mode of delivering teach back has been well defined, good strategies and practices of implementing it in care routines have not been well recognized, and there is little guidance for successfully embedding the teach-back method in different settings [