Beta
236108

Impact of Psycho-Educational Nursing Intervention about Covid-19: on the Pregnant Woman's Knowledge, Anxiety, Depression, and Protective Practices

Article

Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Covid-19 is a new viral disease that has caused a pandemic in the world. Due to the shortage of specific definitive vaccines and treatments, protective behaviors became a vital way to overcome the disease. As a special category, pregnant women need more attention. Aim: To determine the impact of psycho-educational nursing intervention about Covid-19 on knowledge, anxiety, depression levels, and protective practices among pregnant women. Subjects and Method: Study Design: A quasi-experimental (pre-post) design used. Subjects: convenient sample of (243) pregnant women admitted for antenatal care from Kelby and Bahary health care centers in Shebin Elkom district-Menoufia Governorate-Egypt from September to December 2020. Tools: Two tools were utilized for data collection: Structure Interview Schedule and Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale. The period of implementation was (3) months, the implementation was passed into three phases (pre-assessment, implementation, and evaluation phase). Results: There was an association between some variables of socio-demographic characteristics and its total post-anxiety-depression and reproductive history. There was a highly statistically significant difference (P<0.000) between the total mean score of participants' anxiety and depression pre and post-test psycho-educational nursing intervention. Conclusions: According to the results, psycho-educational nursing intervention increased women's knowledge and significantly reduce the anxiety and depression levels during Covid-19 pandemic for pregnant women. Recommendation: Effective strategies targeting maternal stress, anxiety, and depression such as effective risk communication and the provision of psychological first aid may be particularly useful to prevent negative outcomes for pregnant women and their fetuses during Covid pandemic

DOI

10.21608/tsnj.2022.236108

Authors

First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Abd El-wahab

MiddleName

Diab

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health of PsychiatricMental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Elhosary

MiddleName

Soliman

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Maternal & Newborn Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Shattla

MiddleName

Ibrahem

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health of PsychiatricMental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Gehan

Last Name

Abed

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health of PsychiatricMental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

25

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

33515

Issue Date

2022-05-01

Receive Date

2022-03-10

Publish Date

2022-05-01

Page Start

343

Page End

377

Print ISSN

2314-5595

Online ISSN

2735-5519

Link

https://tsnj.journals.ekb.eg/article_236108.html

Detail API

https://tsnj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=236108

Order

14

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,053

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal

Publication Link

https://tsnj.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Impact of Psycho-Educational Nursing Intervention about Covid-19: on the Pregnant Woman's Knowledge, Anxiety, Depression, and Protective Practices

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023