Development and evaluation of educational material directed to fall prevention in pregnant women
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Keywords:
Pregnancy, Fall prevention, Physiotherapy, Social cognitive theory, Auto efficacy, Expectation of results, PEMATAbstract
Background: One in four pregnant women has at least one fall during their pregnancy. The objective of this research was to develop a written educational material on fall prevention for pregnant women, promoting self-efficacy and the expectations of results based on the social cognitive theory. It was also intended to evaluate the validity of the content of the educational material, its understanding and actionability.
Methods: This methodological study was carried out in two phases: the first was based on the development of educational material and its evaluation by two panels of experts (n=13). Secondly, the educational material was evaluated for organization, clarity, appearance, relevance, content, self-efficacy and expectations of results, using an evaluation sheet created by the researchers, as well as its understanding and actionability using the PEMAT instrument. Descriptive statistics are used for sociodemographic variables and the results of the evaluation instruments.
Results: Recommendations on the organization, clarity of information, appearance in terms of image quality, relevance, self-efficacy, expectation of results and safety aspects were met. In the evaluation carried out by the content expert panel, an average of 87.8% and 91.6% was obtained in the areas of actionability and understanding of PEMAT-P, respectively.
Conclusions: This study develops an educational material with content validity, highly understandable and actionable on the falls incident, their causes and consequences, strategies to prevent them, the benefits of exercising and the recommendation of exercises to prevent falls during pregnancy.
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