Designing Printed Educational Materials about Healthy Habits Related to Coronavirus | ||
| Mansoura Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 105-118 PDF (1.16 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mnj.2024.350306 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asem Ahmed1; Sahar Soliman2; Dalia Khalil3 | ||
| 1Demonstrator, Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University | ||
| 2Professor,, Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University | ||
| 3Lecturer, Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Coronavirus disease is a recent global health threat and a public health emergency of international concern. Printed Educational Materials (PEMs) is considered one of the main methods for health education that are widely used to increase awareness among low health litreracy population. Aim: To design PEMs about healthy habits related to Coronavirus. Method: Cross-sectional study design and Delphi method were used throughout this study. Nonprobability sampling techniques were used to recruit study participants. The study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University in addition to 17 primary health care settings at Mansoura district. The sample size was 15 professional experts and 16 academic staff from Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University. In addition to 17 health educators and 136 low health literacy population from the selected settings. The researchers used six tools for preliminary assessment, Delphi survey and designed PEMs evaluation. The researchers developed all the tools except tool six adopted from (Heyne, 2017). Results: All Delphi survey panels achieved concensus with at least 75% agreement regarding all designing principles of both booklet and pamphlet with positive correlation implied consistent validity of the quality score of the designed PEMs. Conclusion: The researchers concluded that incorporating both professional experts and PEMs users with the low health literacy population preferences in the design process of PEMs provides a more holistic design. Recommendations: The researchers recommended that conducting health education campaigns and disseminating the designed PEMs for low health literacy individuals to improve their preventive practices toward COVID-19. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| COVID-19; Healthy behaviors; Low health literacy; Printed educational materials | ||
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