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Effect of an Orientation Program Regarding Utilization of Tele-Maternity Care on Pregnant Women’s Awareness, Attitude and Willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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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.

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2022.248146

Keywords

Awareness, Attitude, Orientation program, Pregnant women, Tele-maternity, Willingness, COVID-19

Authors

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Ayat

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M. Omar

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Assist.Prof.of Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University

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Rasmia

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Abd El Sattar Ali

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Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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El Saida

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Gouda Nasr

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Lecturer in Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt

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Hanem

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Awad Mekhamier

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Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damietta Universities, Egypt.

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Amal

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Sarhan Eldesokey Genedy

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Lecturer in Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt

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13

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2

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32569

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2022-06-01

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2022-07-05

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2022-06-01

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1,657

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1,669

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Effect of an Orientation Program Regarding Utilization of Tele-Maternity Care on Pregnant Women’s Awareness, Attitude and Willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic

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22 Jan 2023