INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF PRE- MARITAL COUNSELING ON NURSES WORKING IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Abstract
Background: Pre- marital counseling are a panel of tests in which couples that are going to get married are tested to prevent any risk of transmitting any disease to their children. The aim of this study: is to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention program of pre- marital counseling on nurses working in primary health care services. Design: A quasi experimental design was used. Setting: This study was conducted at primary health care services at Menuofia Governorate. Sample: A purposive sample of 61 nurseswho provide pre-marital care services at primary health care services. Tools: two tools were used for data collection, tool I: nurses' structured interviewing questionnaire who working in primary health care services it includes; demographic characteristics of nurses and their knowledge regarding pre-marital counseling. tool II: pre-marital counseling observation checklist for nurses working in primary health care services to assess nurses' practice. Results: the study denoted that there was an improvement of nurses' knowledge and practice at the post and follow-up intervention program than pre-program with statistically significant difference. Eighty percent of studied sample scored high level of total correct knowledge at post program intervention than pre-program intervention (10%) and at follow-up program intervention (65%). Also, nurses scored high level of total done practice (85%) at the post program intervention and at follow-up program intervention (75%) than (20%) pre-program intervention. Conclusion: there was an improvement of nurses' knowledge and practice at post and follow-up program with statistically significant difference. Recommendation: Improving nurse’s role in pre-marital counseling by specific descriptive role for each level. Conduct training program regarding pre-marital counseling for the newly appointed in the work and continuous training for nurses working in pre-marital counseling and clinic and should be periodic at least every two years with the new trends in this field.
Key words: Nurses, pre-marital counseling intervention program
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