Title
Influence of Telehealth Intervention on Knowledge of Danger Signs in Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum During the Health Emergency by COVID-19 in Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
The health emergency due to COVID-19 has caused the restriction in access to health services, including care for pregnant women, whose prenatal control in person is limited in Peru. The objective of the research was to evaluate the influence of a telehealth intervention on the knowledge of danger signs in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in pregnant women during the health emergency due to COVID-19. A quasi-experimental research was carried out with 64 pregnant women attended by telehealth (experimental group) and 64 pregnant women attended by face-to-face appointments (control group) in the city of Huaraz (Ancash, Peru, 3,052 m.a.s.l.). A telehealth intervention was applied only to the experimental group between September and November 2020, having assessed the knowledge of danger signs in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum using a previously validated questionnaire. The SPSS V22.0 statistical package and the Chi square test were used. After the intervention, it was evidenced that the proportion of pregnant women with a high level of knowledge was upper in the experimental group compared to the control group, with respect to the danger signs in pregnancy [43 (67.2%) vs. 28 (43.8%)], childbirth [42 (65.6%) vs. 27 (42.2%)] and postpartum [47 (73.4%) vs. 31 (48.4%)], determining the existence of statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups (p < 0.05). It was concluded that the application of telehealth intervention increased the knowledge of danger signs in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in pregnant women during the health emergency due to COVID-19.
Start page
3
End page
13
Volume
242
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud Obstetricia, Ginecología Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111131414
Resource of which it is part
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
ISSN of the container
21903018
ISBN of the container
978-981163012-5
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