Effect of an Orientation Program Regarding Utilization of Tele-Maternity Care on Pregnant Women’s Awareness, Attitude and Willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 117, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Page 1657-1669 PDF (1.34 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.248146 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Ayat M. Omar1; Rasmia Abd El Sattar Ali2; El Saida Gouda Nasr3; Hanem Awad Mekhamier4; Amal Sarhan Eldesokey Genedy3 | ||||
| 1Assist.Prof.of Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University | ||||
| 2Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt | ||||
| 3Lecturer in Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||||
| 4Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damietta Universities, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Tele-maternity represents one approach to optimize care and mitigating risk for exposure for prenatal women in the setting of the COVID-19 and has become crucial to confirm the safety and effective delivery. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an orientation program about utilization of tele-maternity care on pregnant women’ awareness, attitude and willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic .Design: A quasi-experimental pre and post-test one-group only design was utilized for this study. Setting: This study was carried out at Al-hadeka maternity and child health Centre (MCH) in Al-Fayoum governorate, Egypt. Sample: A convenient sample of 300 pregnant women was enrolled during the study period from March 2021 to the end of August 2021. Tool of data collection: A structured interviewing questionnaire composed of six parts to collect the following data: socio-demographic data, obstetrics & technology profile data, women’s awareness, attitude, and willingness regarding tele-maternity care. Results: Findings of this study revealed that there were highly statistically significant differences with an improvement in total score of pregnant women’s awareness, attitude, and willingness towards tele-maternity care post- intervention as compared with pre-intervention (P-value < 0.0001), in addition, there was a positive correlation between the studied women's level of awareness with their attitude and willingness towards tel-maternity care. Conclusion: The tele-maternity orientation program was effective in raising and significantly improving pregnant women's level of awareness, attitude, and willingness towards tele-maternity care. Recommendations: Extra continuing training programs on all updated tele-maternity services should be implemented, as well as additional researches be conducted on a large sample of women during their perinatal period at diverse health care settings. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Awareness; Attitude; Orientation program; pregnant women; Tele-maternity; Willingness; COVID-19 | ||||
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