Interventıon Study on Reproductıve Health ın Famıly Art and Educatıon Center Courses Intervention Study on Reproductive Health

ABSTRACT

Aim: In this study, it is aimed to determine the knowledge of the trainees in the Family Art and Education Center (ASEM), to raise awareness about reproductive health, and to determine the effectiveness of the training given in order to complete their knowledge deficiencies.

Methods: The study was conducted with 80 trainees who received training at ASEM between May 1 and June 30, 2018. Pre-test, interactive training and then post-test were administered to the volunteer participants. Statistical analysis of the data was made using the SPSS 27.0 package program. McNemar X2 test was used in the analysis of the data. p<0.05 was accepted as the cut-off value for statistical significance.

Results: Eighty trainees with a mean age of 41.33±9.54 years old participated in the study. In the pre-test, 20.0% of the participants and 53.8% in the post-test correctly knew all the cancers screened by national cancer screening programs. In addition, it was seen that 32.5% of women knew the right time to perform breast self-examination in the pre-test, while this rate increased to 85.0% in the post-training test. A statistically significant difference was found between the pre-test and post-test in all subjects given in the field of reproductive health (p<0.05).

Conclusion: It was found that the participants had a low level of knowledge about family planning, sexually transmitted infections and female cancers in the screening program, and the educational intervention provided was beneficial. However, it was determined that a sufficient increase could not be achieved with the education intervention. This shows that training programs targeting women and including issues in the field of reproductive health should be repeated with periodic and up-to-date content.

Key words: Education, women's health, reproductive health