Effect of Health Teaching Sessions on Women's Knowledge Regarding Selected Danger Signals During Pregnancy

Abstract
Background: Pregnant woman may face the risk of sudden, unpredictable complications called danger signals that could potentially be life threatening to the mother or her fetus. Raising women's awareness about danger signals through antenatal health teaching sessions improved identification and early detection of problems.
Aim of Study: The effect of health teaching sessions on women's knowledge regarding selected danger signals during pregnancy. Hypothesis: (H1) women who receive health teaching sessions regarding selected danger signals during pregnancy will show higher knowledge scores in posttests than in their pretest. (H2) Women who receive health teaching sessions regarding selected danger signals will exposed to less danger signal.
Subjects and Methods: Design: One group pre-posttest quasi experimental design. Sample: Purposive sample of 150 primigravida pregnant women who free from any medical or obstetrical problem, their gestational age from 20 to 36wks Setting: Data was collected from June, 2016 to Januauary, 2017 at Antenatal outpatient clinic in Obstetrics and Gynecol-ogy, Cairo University Hospitals Tool: Semi-structured interview schedule to collect data related to socio-demographic charac-teristics, Pre-posttest questionnaire for assessment of knowl-edge related to selected dangerous signal and follow-up questionnaire.
Results: Women's age ranged from 18 to 35yrs with different level of education. Total knowledge score of all posttests was highly statistically significant difference than pretest (p<0.0001).
Conclusion: The current study findings concluded that health teaching sessions had an effect on increasing women's knowledge regarding danger signals during pregnancy which will help in early detection & control the dangerous symptoms and complications that may arise during pregnancy progress.