Abstract
Background: Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) are important resource with excellent potential to further reduce the number of unwanted pregnancy and abortion. Therefore, this study.Aim: aims to assess and evaluate the impact of an educational program on nurse's knowledge toward using ECPs. Subjects and methods: a quasi-experimental intervention study for nurses were used in this study. 27 maternity nurses were selected convenience for the intervention part of this study. The data were collected through the period of seven months. The researcher used self-administrated questionnaire tools for the nurses.Results: The results revealed that: nurses had deficient knowledge on ECPs (7.4%) at the pre-program phase while after implementation of nursing educational program there are a statistically significant improvement in nurse's knowledge at post and follow-up phases was showed. Conclusion: significant improvement of nurse's knowledge was shown after the implementation of the educational program. Recommendations: family planning counseling by the maternity nurse including ECPs must be emphasized as an integral part of any family planning activities and programs, continuous refreshing courses about ECPs for nurses including the newly appointed nurses as well as regular supervision and evaluation of nurse's performance. On the other hand, hotlines should be developed to provide information about emergency contraceptives and referrals to clinics that provide these services.
Highlights
Unintended pregnancy is a global problem Fathalla et al,( 2003)
Table ( 2): illustrates the distribution of the studied nurses according to their previous training in the field of family planning about Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs)
The meeting held by the international Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Family Health International (FHI), Population Council and WHO at Bellagio developed a consensus statement calling for the need to make access to Emergency contraceptive (EC) a practical reality
Summary
Unintended pregnancy is a global problem Fathalla et al,( 2003). Nearly 4 in 10 pregnancies around the globe are unplanned and about 2 in 10 ends in abortionTrussell& Wynn,( 2008).In addition to, their negative social impact, may lead some women to seek induced abortion, a procedure which in settings (like Egypt) where abortion is illegal is often unsafe Shah&Ahman, (2009). There are about 43 million of them (70%) are at risk of unintended pregnancy that is, they are sexually active and do not want to become pregnant, but could become pregnant if they and their partners fail to use a contraceptive method correctly and consistently. Most of the women 62% of reproductive age are currently using a contraceptive method. Only percent of women at risk of unintended pregnancy are not currently using any contraceptive method Joneset al.,( 2013). Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) are important resource with excellent potential to further reduce the number of unwanted pregnancy and abortion. This study.Aim: aims to assess and evaluate the impact of an educational program on nurse's knowledge toward using ECPs. Subjects and methods: a quasiexperimental intervention study for nurses were used in this study. The researcher used self-administrated questionnaire tools for the nurses.Results: The results revealed that: nurses had deficient knowledge on ECPs (7.4%) at the pre-program phase while after implementation of nursing educational program there are a statistically significant improvement in nurse's knowledge at post and follow-up phases was showed
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