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Educational Program About Reproductive Health for Blind and Deaf Adolescent Girls in Assiut Governorate

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Background: Persons with disabilities represent a significant portion of the world's population and they are part of every community. They find that information on reproductive health (RH) is often inaccessible to them.
Aim: evaluate the impact of an educational program about RH for blind and deaf adolescent girls. Methods: it was Quasi-experimental research design which conducted in Al Noor and Al Amal Schools in Assiut Governorate. The total sample was 80 girls. Tools: it included three tools: - a structured interview sheet, to assess disabled girls' knowledge and attitudes towards RH and an observational checklist (using doll) to assess practice related perineal care. Results: All the studied sample (100%) has poor knowledge regarding to RH in pre test while their knowledge improved in post test to 58.8%. Regarding to perineal care, all of the studied sample (100%) carried out all steps of perineal care except three steps which include the correct direction for cleaning the perineum, while their practice improved in post and follow up test. Conclusion: All the studied girls have poor knowledge in pre test while after implementation the education programe their knowledge were improved (P= ≤ 0.001).
Recommendation: Continues health education programs should be implemented for increasing awareness of them about reproductive health.

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10.21608/asnj.2014.58655

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Reproductive health, Adolescent, Disabilities & Perineal care

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Safaa

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Osman

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R.

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Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University,

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Mahmoud

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Zakherah

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Obstetrics and Gynecology department, Faculty of medicine,

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Soad

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Bayomi.

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S.

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Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University.

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2

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4

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8932

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2014-12-01

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2019-11-13

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2014-12-01

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57

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67

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2314-8845

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2682-3799

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Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal

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Educational Program About Reproductive Health for Blind and Deaf Adolescent Girls in Assiut Governorate

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22 Jan 2023