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Educational Health Program for Mothers regarding Care of Their Preschool Children with Trachoma in Benha City

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Medical and Health Science.

Abstract

Background: Trachoma is an infectious disease that first manifests in young children after Chlamydia trachomatis repeatedly infects the conjunctiva. Aim: In the current study, mothers in Benha City were asked to evaluate the impact of a health education program on how they cared for their preschoolers who had trachoma. Design: It was conducted using a quasi-experimental study design. Setting: At the Ophthalmic Hospital in Benha City, the study was carried out in the outpatient clinics. Sample a simple random sample of 271 mothers was used. Tools: For data collection, two instruments were employed; A structured interviewing questionnaire is tool number one, it contained two parts; Four items were present in Part I: Socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers, personal characteristics of preschoolers, history of trachoma and environmental assessment. Part II covered mothers' knowledge of trachoma and its prevention, as well as their knowledge of the investigated children's personal characteristics, health history related to trachoma. Mothers provided information about trachoma practices in the tool (II). Results: The study clarified that 34% of the studied mothers having preschool children aged 35 - < 40 years old with mean ± SD was 39.31±9.03, 72.7% of them were married, 56.1% of them didn't work . Conclusion: Utilizing a health education program helped mothers' practices and knowledge to significantly improve. Recommendations: Implementing health promotion, health education, and screening approaches for the early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of trachoma in all community settings by distributing booklets.

DOI

10.21608/bjas.2023.194668.1076

Keywords

trachoma, Mothers, preschool children, Educational Program

Authors

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Abd Elatey

MiddleName

Saber

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

Email

shimaa657o@gmail.com

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First Name

hanaa

Last Name

Abd El-Megeed

MiddleName

Abd El-Gawad

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt.

Email

hana_hana779@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahlam

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

ahmed

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

Email

ahlam.sarhan@fnur.bu.edu.eg

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

Abd El-Mordy

MiddleName

Abdallah

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt.

Email

mona.mohamed@fnur.bu.edu.eg

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Volume

8

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

41779

Issue Date

2023-04-01

Receive Date

2023-01-18

Publish Date

2023-04-01

Page Start

179

Page End

189

Print ISSN

2356-9751

Online ISSN

2356-976X

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Original Research Papers

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1,647

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Publication Title

Benha Journal of Applied Sciences

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https://bjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Educational Health Program for Mothers regarding Care of Their Preschool Children with Trachoma in Benha City

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28 Dec 2024