Abstract
Objective : To develop and validate an educational booklet about gestational hypertension syndrome. Method : methodological research divided into five stages: focus groups with pregnant women about gestational hypertension syndrome; literature review; construction and validation of a booklet on gestational hypertensive syndrome; preparation of texts; consulting with a graphic designer to create the figures/illustrations. The validation of the booklet has been done by the analysis of nine expert judges on the subject and 30 pregnant women, selected by convenience. Results : regarding the content validity index, it was higher in all the aspects, higher than 0.9. It was verified high level of agreement between the judges and pregnant women, in the appearance aspect of the booklet on five topics. Conclusion : the material is effective both in the technical aspects, as in the communication favor with the audience, reaching the understanding of participants in the prevention of hypertension syndrome.
Highlights
Hypertension is a clinical problem, and when associated with pregnancy, it is one of the causal factors of mortality and maternal-fetal morbidity, being at the origin of several complications, with prematurity, fetal growth restriction, fetal or perinatal death, placental abruption, uterine rupture, hemorrhage, among others [1].The epidemiological framework for maternal health is critical as well as the fragility of assistance to this population seen in developing nations
To ensure the quality of the elaboration of the material, assumptions have been used to explain about the stages of the construction process of educational material for health care [9]
The research was conducted in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, in the period from February to November 2014. It was initially performed a focus group with pregnant women about the knowledge of gestational hypertensive syndrome. This time was for researchers to understand better the doubts and anxieties of pregnant women regarding this issue, it was not proposed in the model [9]
Summary
Hypertension is a clinical problem, and when associated with pregnancy, it is one of the causal factors of mortality and maternal-fetal morbidity, being at the origin of several complications, with prematurity, fetal growth restriction, fetal or perinatal death, placental abruption, uterine rupture, hemorrhage, among others [1].The epidemiological framework for maternal health is critical as well as the fragility of assistance to this population seen in developing nations. Hypertension is a clinical problem, and when associated with pregnancy, it is one of the causal factors of mortality and maternal-fetal morbidity, being at the origin of several complications, with prematurity, fetal growth restriction, fetal or perinatal death, placental abruption, uterine rupture, hemorrhage, among others [1]. Gestational hypertension continues to be responsible for this situation, due to being ignored or not valued correctly and for persisting a significant controversy about the best method of prevention and treatment of different hypertensive disorders. It is disappointing to note that this scenario remains unchanged over the years, and in it, gestational hypertension is still a serious and fatal complication in developed countries, with more serious situations even in poor or developing nations [3]
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