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Screening for Vulvovaginal Candidiasis of Pregnant Women and Effectiveness of Learning Package on The Knowledge and Clinical Feature in Egypt
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AMANY HAMED GAD MOHAMED, AMEL DAWOD KAMEL, SHAHIRA MOHAMED METWALY, HISHAM HAGGAH , YULIS SETIYA DEWI, SHARBAT THABET HASSANINE
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Introduction. Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common problem during pregnancy that threat to the well-being of the mother and baby; early detection and health teaching is thus very important. The aims of the current study were: 1) to screen pregnant women for prevalence of VVC 2) to evaluate the effect of a learning package on the knowledge and clinical features of VVC.
Methods: a quasi-experimental design one group "pre/post-test" was utilized. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 300 pregnant women suffering from abnormal vaginal discharge were recruited. Three tools were utilized to collect data; Structured Interview Schedule, VVC knowledge pre-post-test follow up tool, and Laboratory and Bacteriology investigations sheet.
Results. This study revealed the prevalence of Vulvovaginal candidiasis among the total pregnant women was 49%. The total mean of knowledge score was 12.21 ± 3.2 in the pretest as compared to 24.9 ± 4.1 in posttest, and three weeks follow up with a mean of 38. 20 ± 4.3 with high statistical significant differences (P = 0.001) in posttest, which indicated an improvement in knowledge level and in the clinical features of VVC three weeks of follow up visits among the pregnant diagnosed VVC after receiving the education program.
Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of VVC among pregnant women and the educational program has positive effect on knowledge as well as decreased the clinical feature of VVC with a highly statistically significant difference.
Recommendations: Educational intervention and Screening protocol for early diagnosis are beneficial in treatment and prevention of VVC during pregnancy.
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Vaginal Candidiasis, Prevalence, pregnancy, Learning Package
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.03.513
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