The impact of a planned Health Education Program On the compliance and knowledge of Jordanian Pregnant Women with anemia

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616001424493
• Date of registration: 12/10/2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: JUST university
• Public title: The impact of a planned Health Education Program On the compliance and knowledge of Jordanian Pregnant Women with anemia
• Scientific title: The Effect of an intervention Health Education Program On Jordanian Anemic Pregnant Women’s Knowledge, Compliance and Hemoglobin Level": Evidence from RCT with a public maternity hospital in Irbid, North of Jordan
• Date of first enrolment: 01/04/2016
• Target sample size: 200
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616001424493.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Prevention; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Parallel;

Countries of recruitment

Jordan

Contacts

• Name: A/Prof Reem Hatamleh

• Name: A/Prof Reem Hatamleh

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Pregnant women with anemia aged between 18-45 years in their second trimester of pregnancy, and their hemoglobin levels below 10.5 mg/dl,have smart phones with an access to social media (Whatsapp application) will be included in the study.
Exclusion criteria: Pregnant women who are illiterate or have a history of obstetric, medical or psychological problems

Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 45 Years
Gender: Females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Fetal medicine and complications of pregnancy

anemia during pregnancy;
anemia during pregnancy

Blood - Anaemia

Intervention(s)

The written draft of structured educational program about anemia during pregnancy was converted to a single video for 15- minutes duration. The information in the video record will be given by the voice of Specialist midwife in combination of PowerPoint slides
The areas covered in the video records were: Introduction to pregnancy and anemia of pregnancy, causes and predisposing factors of iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy, the effect of anemia in pregnancy, signs, and symptoms, management of iron deficiency anemia, which includes iron therapy, dietary management, and prevention of anemia.
The video and its content were validated by specialists in the field of obstetric health nursing.
The intervention will be given as video record to participants in the experimental group
from the researcher via a WhatsApp application on their smartphones, to make sure that the participant will adhere to the intervention and all of them will watch the video, WhatsApp application will show two blue check marks next to send messages, that indicate the recipient has read the message or seen the video.

Primary Outcome(s)

Level of knowledge assessed using a questionnaire designed for this study will be increased after the health education program as evidenced by post-test total score of knowledge questionnaire[after watching the educational video through Whatsapp application]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Haemoglobin level will be increased after health educational program as evidenced by Haemoglobin level, assessed by serum assay[within four weeks after the intervention ]

Secondary ID(s)

None

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Jordan university of science and technology (JUST)

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Institutional Review Board of Jordan University of Science and Technology