Self-Care Activities Performed By Pregnant Women and Developing a Nursing Fact Sheet as an Educational Message for Vulnerable Women
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Self-care activities include all health decisions and actions people make for themselves and families to stay healthy. It is any activity of an individual or family with the intention of improving or restoring health, treating and preventing disease. Aim of the study: was to identify self-care activities utilized by pregnant women, and to develop a nursing fact sheet as an educational message for vulnerable women. Research design: an exploratory descriptive design was utilized. Setting: the study was conducted at antenatal clinics and health centers at Mansoura city. Subjects: 600 pregnant women were recruited for this study. Tool of data collection: a structured interview questionnaire. Results: indicate that about half of the studied sample (50.2%) was between 20 and less than 25 years, only 18.2% had a university education. More than three fourths (78.8%) of women were primigravida, and 67.7% had more than 4 antenatal visits. Only 17.3% of women reported that they visited the dentist during pregnancy, 53.0% of women were showering three or more times per week and almost two thirds (69.8%) received vaccination. Most of them were exposed to heart burn, constipation, vaginal discharge, varicose veins and edema (74.5%, 56.0%, 73.3% and 51.7% respectively). More than one third of women always accept their mood changes and body changes and report danger signals (36.2%, 37.8% & 32.5% respectively). 50.7% always eats what is good for their babies, 40.3% sometimes spent time in seeking information about child care, 58.3% of studied women follow baby’s movement and 47.1% was usually eager to breast feed her baby. A nursing fact sheet was developed based on the current finding as educational message to be disseminated to vulnerable women. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the majority of the studied women had deficient self-care practices related to the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Meanwhile, they suffered from minor discomfort of pregnancy but the majority used harmful practices to cope with these problems. Recommendations: Maternity nurses should arrange training sessions and provide pertinent information for pregnant women related to self-practices during pregnancy and the way of coping with minor discomfort. A fact sheet should be disseminated to vulnerable women.
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Amany Hamed Gad Mohamed
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