Nursing Intervention for High Risk Hypertension Pregnancy in Family Medicine Centers

Abstract

High risk pregnancy associated with any physical, social or psychological factors that increase the risk of woman or fetal morbidity or mortality. The aim of this study to evaluate the nursing intervention of high risk hypertension pregnancy in family medicine centers. Design a quasi experimental design was used in this study. Setting this study was conducted at 5 family medicine centers in Giza. Sample purposive sample were used in this study, according to criteria their number was 130 women. Three tools were used for data collection, first tool was an interviewing questionnaire for collecting data related to socio-demographic data of women, women knowledge related to pregnancy & women practices related to antenatal care, the second tool was follow up of outcome after delivery about woman and fetus &medical record analysis and the third tool was an measurement of weight / height and blood pressures. The results this study found that total knowledge of the pregnant women had unsatisfactory in pre intervention it was improved to majority in post intervention & none of the pregnant women were done their antenatal practices satisfactory in pre intervention while it was improved to majority in post intervention. Conclusion the results of the study showed that the knowledge and practices of women study sample were unsatisfactory pre-intervention program and improved to satisfactory after implementation. This was proved by the presence of statistical significant difference between pre &post intervention. This difference high significant in total knowledge and practices. Recommendation develop education program for high risk hypertension pregnant women about antenatal care, high risk factor in pregnancy, proper nutrition and proper practices during pregnancy.