The impact of education intervention on the Health Belief Model constructs regarding anxiety of nulliparous pregnant women

Abstract

Background:According to investigations, pregnant women hypothesized that anxiety is a common factor that will improve spontaneously; they are not aware of its side effects on the fetus, baby, and pregnancy outcome, as a whole. Other studies have also not tried to design a theoretical framework based on Health Education Models (HBMs) to overcome this problem. The current study aimed at exploring the effectiveness of education on the anxiety of nulliparous women based on a HBM.Materials and Methods:An experimental study on 88 eligible nulliparous women (n = 44 per group), from Doroud city, was performed in 2012. The data was collected using a researcher made questionnaire. Education was conducted in three sessions tailored with HBM constructs with the help of lectures, group discussions, inquiries, Power Point presentations, and booklets. Evaluation performed using a posttest four and eight weeks after last session. The collected data were analyzed using statistical tests, including Chi-square, independent t-test, and repeated measure Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) by the significance level of 0.05.Results:The mean score of knowledge, perceived sensitivity, perceived severity, perceived benefits and barriers, cues to action, self efficacy, and behavior, four weeks after intervention (P < 0.001) and eight weeks after intervention (P < 0.001) were significantly more in the case group Than the control group. ANOVA with repeated measures showed a significant increase in the case group in knowledge (from 32.1 to 89.1), perceived sensitivity (from 34.8 to 91.5), perceived severity (from 31.82 to 88.48), perceived benefits (from 39.28 to 92.41), perceived barriers (from 26.93 to 88.61), cues to action (from24.65 to 92.03), self efficacy (from 29.71 to 88.75), and behavior (from 28.83 to 94.63). Changes were not significant in the control group.Conclusion:The effect of HBM and education on increasing knowledge and changing people's beliefs and behavior, in terms of anxiety based pregnancy, should make health planners and authorities pay more attention to these issues. Moreover, it will help in the betterment of the health of mothers and babies.

The Effect of Educational Intervention in Promoting Safe Behaviors in a Sample of Iranian Primary School Students: An Application of the Health Belief Model

“…The mean score of self-efficacy showed a significant increase in the intervention group after the intervention, which is in line with the results of similar studies (Jackson, 1997;Kealey et al, 2009;Shahnazi, Sabooteh, Sharifirad, Mirkarimi, & Hassanzadeh, 2015;Tavassoli et al, 2015). Fostering the belief in the students that they can perform safe behaviors improves their chances of obeying traffic regulations (Farma et al, 2014;Hajian, Vakilian, Najabadi, Hosseini, & Mirzaei, 2011;Jackson, 1997;Nazari et al, 2008;Rosenstock & Stretcher, 2008).…”

Effect of Application of Health Belief Model on Pregnant Women' Knowledge and Health Beliefs Regarding Urogenital Infections

“…The present study result is also in the same line with some other recent studies Khoramabadi et al, 2016 and Shahnazi et al, 2015 [23,24] who studied the effect of education based on HBM on different health behaviors. They emphasized that changing the health belief is prerequisite for behavior change.…”

“…This result is similar to at least two studies Khoramabadi et al, 2016 and Shahnazi et al, 2015 [23,24]. They had studied the effects of education based HBM on different health behavior among pregnant women.…”

“…This results mean that the two groups under study are homogenous. This is similar to Khoramabadi et al, 2016 [23] as well as Shahnazi et al, 2015 [24]. They conducted their studies to detect the impact of education intervention based on HBM on different health behavior among pregnant women.…”

An Overview of Coverage of BCG Vaccination and Its Determinants Based on Data from the Coverage Survey in Zhejiang Province

“…Previous reports have shown that a child whose mother has a lower education level is less likely to receive full immunizations [ 28 , 29 ]. Besides this, a mother with a higher education background would have a better awareness and capacity to take advantage of an immunization service [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. Third, we assumed that mothers with jobs had less time to spare for childhood immunization as it might not be one of the priorities amidst other competing events to bring healthy children to obtain vaccinations.…”