Educational technologies to encourage (self) care in postpartum women.

Objective: to evaluate national and international literature regarding the use of educational technologies to encourage self care in postpartum women.

Method: an integrative review of the literature. The articles were collected from the CINAHL, SCOPUS, PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and Cochrane databases; the time period for the articles referred to January/2004 to July/2014; the languages used in the articles were Portuguese, English, Spanish and French; the articles were selected from the following descriptors: postpartum care period, educational technology, nursing and self care.