Effect of an Orientation Program Regarding Utilization of Tele-Maternity Care on Pregnant Women’s Awareness, Attitude and Willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic

M. Omar, Ayat; Abd El Sattar Ali, Rasmia; Gouda Nasr, El Saida; Awad Mekhamier, Hanem; Sarhan Eldesokey Genedy, Amal

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2022.248146

Effect of an Orientation Program Regarding Utilization of Tele-Maternity Care on Pregnant Women’s Awareness, Attitude and Willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assist.Prof.of Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University

² Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

³ Lecturer in Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt

⁴ Assist.Prof.of Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damietta Universities, Egypt.

10.21608/ejhc.2022.248146

Abstract

Background: Tele-maternity represents one approach to optimize care and mitigating risk
for exposure for prenatal women in the setting of the COVID-19 and has become crucial to confirm
the safety and effective delivery. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an orientation
program about utilization of tele-maternity care on pregnant women’ awareness, attitude and
willingness during COVID-19 Pandemic .Design: A quasi-experimental pre and post-test one-group
only design was utilized for this study. Setting: This study was carried out at Al-hadeka maternity
and child health Centre (MCH) in Al-Fayoum governorate, Egypt. Sample: A convenient sample of
300 pregnant women was enrolled during the study period from March 2021 to the end of August
2021. Tool of data collection: A structured interviewing questionnaire composed of six parts to
collect the following data: socio-demographic data, obstetrics & technology profile data, women’s
awareness, attitude, and willingness regarding tele-maternity care. Results: Findings of this study
revealed that there were highly statistically significant differences with an improvement in total
score of pregnant women’s awareness, attitude, and willingness towards tele-maternity care post-
intervention as compared with pre-intervention (P-value < 0.0001), in addition, there was a positive
correlation between the studied women's level of awareness with their attitude and willingness
towards tel-maternity care. Conclusion: The tele-maternity orientation program was effective in
raising and significantly improving pregnant women's level of awareness, attitude, and willingness
towards tele-maternity care. Recommendations: Extra continuing training programs on all updated
tele-maternity services should be implemented, as well as additional researches be conducted on a
large sample of women during their perinatal period at diverse health care settings.

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