PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS OF PREGNANT WOMEN TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE
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Narrative, Knowledge, Health Beliefs, Protective Behaviors, Climate ChangeAbstract
Background: Climate change considered one of the most important issues in Egypt and worldwide. It represents a significant worldwide health issue that has rapidly moved to the forefront of the global health agenda. It is essential to use carefully designed narrative messages to inform expectant mothers about their vulnerabilities to the adverse health effects of climate change, and help encourage and enable women to take proper protective behaviors. Aim of the study: Evaluate the effect of narrative information on knowledge, and protective behaviors of pregnant women toward climate change. Research design: Quazi experimental design was adopted to conduct this study. Setting: The study was carried out at family planning and antenatal care unit in outpatient clinic, at Zagazig University Hospital. Subjects: Purposive sample of 60 pregnant women. Tools of data collection: Five tools were used for data collection. Tool I: A structured interviewing questionnaire, Tool II: The women’s Knowledge questionnaire about climate change, Tool III: Protective behaviors related to climate change scale, and Tool IV: Narrative information for pregnant women toward climate change. Results: A highly statistically significant difference was found regarding the total mean scores for protective behaviors of pregnant women related to climate change across two domains: mitigation of exposure to heat waves and air pollution, before and after a study intervention. The total mean score for all adaptive behaviors increased from 48.98 ± 6.23 before the intervention to 78.16 ± 3.82 after the intervention. In addition, there was a positive correlation coefficient, with a statistically significant between knowledge and Preventive behavior in pre- & post-intervention with (r =0.275), p (0.033*). Conclusion: It was concluded that, narrative information significantly improves the knowledge, and protective behaviors scores of pregnant women towards climate change throughout the study phases. Recommendations: Educational training and communication activities about climate change and its effect on pregnancy should be conducted for pregnant women using narrative messages
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