Pregnant Women’s Knowledge Regarding Telemedicine as Antenatal Care Strategy during Corona Pandemic | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 89, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1196-1205 PDF (335.58 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.267730 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Doaa Abdelhady Hamed1; Sahar Mousa Soliman2; Walaa Fathy Mohamed3; Amira Mohammed Attya4 | ||
| 1Clinical instructor, Lecturer of Maternity and Neonatal | ||
| 2Professor, Lecturer of Maternity and Neonatal | ||
| 3Assistant Professor, Lecturer of Maternity and Neonatal | ||
| 4Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: A COVID-19 pandemic is emerging infections and a horrible disease has been shown to have a fatal impact on pregnant women and their fetuses. Telemedicine has become vital to ensure safe and effective health for maternal and fetal conditions. Aim: assess pregnant women’s knowledge regarding telemedicine to be used as antenatal care strategy during corona pandemic. Research Design: A descriptive exploratory design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted in the Ante Natal Outpatient Clinic at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital. Sample: Convenient sample consisted of 368 women from the previous mentioned setting. Tools: tool was used; structured interviewing questionnaire was used to assess general characteristics, medical and family history, obstetric history, and pregnant women’s knowledge regarding telemedicine. Result: the current study revealed that 53.3% of studied sample had good knowledge about telemedicine. Conclusion: The present study was concluded that about half of pregnant women had satisfactory knowledge regarding telemedicine. Moreover, there was a high statistical significant relation between studied sample knowledge and their educational level with p value <0.001, also there is significance relation between knowledge and family income with p-value 0.010. Recommendation: Awareness programs should be developed up to raise women's knowledge regarding telemedicine services & Application of instructional guideline to healthcare providers to improve Obstetric services access via telemedicine after COVID-19 Further researches: evaluate the effect of educational programs regard telemedicine in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity among pregnant women during COVID19. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Telemedicine; Antenatal care; knowledge | ||
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