Background: Menorrhagia is a condition characterized by heavy menstrual bleeding during
menstrual cycle and occurs when the women must change the pad within less than two hours or
when the menstrual bleeding lasts up to 7days or more. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of
educational guidelines on women's knowledge and self-care practices regarding menorrhagia.
Design: A quasi-experimental study design was followed. Setting: The study was conducted at
obstetrics and gynecology out-patient clinic affiliated to Benha University Hospital. Sampling: A
convenient sample included. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used, tool (I): A Structured
interviewing questionnaire to assess demographic data, menstrual, contraceptive and family history,
clinical data about menorrhagia and women's knowledge regarding menorrhagia. tool (II) women's
self-care practices regarding menorrhagia to assess self-care practice of women with heavy
menstrual period. Results: The study illustrated that less than one quarter of the studied women had
good knowledge pre-educational guidelines while, nearly three quarter of them had good
knowledge post-educational guidelines. More than one third of the studied women had satisfactory
self-care practice regarding menorrhagia pre-educational guidelines while, more than three quarters
of them had satisfactory self-care practices post-educational guidelines. Conclusion: The
educational guideline had significant improvement on women's knowledge and self-care practices
regarding menorrhagia post-intervention and follow-up phase. There was a positive statistical
significant correlation between total knowledge and total self-care practices pre, post and follow-up
phase. |
