Effect of prenatal counselling on compliance and outcomes of teenage pregnancy

Mersal, Fathia Ahmed; Esmat, O M; Khalil, Ghada M.

doi:10.26719/2013.19.1.10

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“…Furthermore, in the same line, in India, mothers indicated parallel results as highlighted by Mukhopadhyay et al, in 2010. [4,11] Egyptian women think that in order to be prestigious with high benefits in marriage, children must be gotten early. This was a significant reason for early marriage among Egyptian girls.…”

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“…The sample size was determined based on the Epidemiological Information Statistical Program, which estimated that a minimal number should be 220. The Health Education Compliance Questionnaire (HECQ) was developed and applied by the researcher based on a thorough review of related literature [1,3,4,8] to assess the factors that affected women's compliance to health education during the pregnancy period. This tool involved multiple choice questions, with two to seven alternatives.…”

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“…Health education considers all care activities needed for pregnancy management. [3][4][5] Compliance means the actions of obeying and following rules, instructions or requests. Moreover, in health fields, it can be defined as the capability and readiness or willingness to accept and follow a prescribed healthcare management.…”

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“…Many references pointed to 80% of performance of the desired task to be considered as accepted compliance. [2,4,6] There are several studies on pregnant women and noncompliance to health instruction, but the investigations on the factors affecting pregnancy compliance to health education are minimal. These factors can be positively or negatively classified.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are a few reviews focused on the determination and description of these different factors. [4,7] Therefore, the aim of the current study is to determine the views of pregnant women in relation to the factors that affect health education compliance. Investigating their awareness and opinions concerning this issue will be an important step for improving and promoting positive factors and overcoming negative ones.…”

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Health education compliance among pregnant women

Mohammed

Kandeel

2017

CNS

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It has been publicized that pregnant women exhibit an increase in clinical signs and symptoms during the pregnancy period. Nurses have an essential role to help pregnant women in handling their self-care as independently as possible. Health education is a foundation of nursing interventions in prenatal care. The compliance of pregnant women to health instructions will facilitate the nursing management in being systemic, holistic and creative for experiencing a positive pregnancy outcome. But, despite all the best intentions and efforts on the part of the healthcare professionals, these products might not be achievable if the women are non-compliant. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the factors that affect health education compliance among pregnant women. A descriptive research design was undertaken. By convenient sampling, 238 pregnant women were selected at out-patients units in El Shatiby University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. A Health Education Compliance Questionnaire (HECQ) was developed and used to collect the necessary data of the study. Based on the analysis of the subjects' responses, the results revealed that there were promoting and inhibiting factors regarding health education compliance as perceived by pregnant women. First, in relation to themselves, the enhancing factors were physical and psychological conditions, self-cooperation, and relationship with the health staff, whereas, the inhibiting factors were concentration and understanding, acceptance, and trust. Second, as regards social and economic factors, the promoting factors were friends and relatives, family relationships, and marital age, while the hindering factors were monthly income, family size and transportation. Moreover, study subjects ranked the satisfactory topics that they received and adhered pregnancy follow up took the first position and dangerous signs were the next. In conclusion, compliance to health education among pregnant women is a major health concern affecting almost all women in El Shatiby University Hospital. There are a lot of factors that may promote or inhibit health education compliance among these women. The major recommendation is that nurses as health educators must facilitate the educational process for pregnant women, family and society. Efforts and collaboration between all nursing disciplines in the field of health education should be established. As this may be crucial to improve health education compliance within pregnancy or other maternal condition. Future studies need to investigate on how to minimize the inhibiting factors and support the promoting ones.

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