Effectiveness Of The Self-Care Behavior Development Program For Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnant, Women

Study Population and Sample The universe of the study consists of all women who have been diagnosed with pregnancy who admitted to the pregnant outpatient clinics of hospitals and who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Pregnant women were selected by simple random sampling method and included in the study.

n=(Nt^2 pq)/(d^2 (N-1)+t^2 pq) According to his formula, n = 29.828625 was found at the significance level of α = 0.05 at 0.05 margin of error.

n = Number of women to be included in the sampling N = the number of participants that make up the universe of the research (3000) p = Frequency of occurrence (0.02) q = frequency of occurrence of the event (1-p) t = t table value at the error level detected at a certain degree of freedom (1.96) d = the desired deviation value (0.05) according to the frequency of occurrence of the event When the urinary system infection is seen as 2% in pregnant women (Ayhan et al.2008) and the number of live births of the hospital in one year is taken as 3000 reference (Hospital archive) α = 0.05 at the significance level of 0.05 The number of pregnant women to be sampled in the margin of error is 30 people. It is planned to work with a total of 60 participants, 30 for the experimental group and 30 for the control group.

Randomization was applied to determine the experimental and control groups. Data Collection Tools Before determining the data collection tools, the literature about the research subject was searched. Tools were determined in accordance with the information obtained from the literature. At the same time, a Self-Care Behaviors Development Program was created, and it was decided to implement the program with the pregnant women in the experimental group by face-to-face meeting and then by phone call. Two forms and an inventory were used to collect data in the study. Data collection tools used in research;

• Pregnant Information Form
• Pregnant Evaluation Form
• Genital Hygiene Behaviors Inventory
• Pregnancy Education Brochure Data Collection The pregnant women who accepted to participate in the study were informed about the purpose and importance of the research, data collection tools and methods, and the flow of the study. While a brochure was given to the pregnant women in the control group (after the end of the study) in the randomization table, the pregnant women in the experimental group were informed that they were included in a training and counseling program and that they would be interviewed again by phone. Each pregnant participating in the study was also informed that she could quit the study at any time.