Effect of Applying Web-Based Health Education Module on Nursing Students' Knowledge, Adaptive Healthy Measures and Attitude Regarding Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Pre-intervention phase:

Initial data was gathered about the participants' socio-demographic characteristics, their knowledge, adaptive healthy measures, and attitude toward PCOS before the implementation of the health education intervention. A brief introduction to the goals, processes, voluntary nature of participation, confidentiality and anonymity declarations, and questionnaire cover page were all included. Participants were made aware that they could withdraw from the study at any moment, there would be no negative repercussions, and they could choose to have any case data acquired for the study destroyed. The informed consent form must be signed by the participants and submitted back by ordinary mail to participate.

The developed health education module was created based on the participants' preliminary assessment results and according to recommendations from [30]. It consisted of seven interactive modules (4 hours' sessions) in Arabic that covered the following topics: "overview of PCOS, etiology and risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, complications, preventive measures, and treatment of PCOS." It aimed at increasing health awareness regarding PCOS, encouraging and promoting adaptive healthy measures to prevent PCOS, and promoting a positive attitude regarding PCOS.

The module development team gathered to discuss how each module would be prepared and formatted, as well as how the modules' sessions would be broken down. The program was designed with a defined purpose, precise goals, pertinent materials, and instructional techniques. In addition, it was developed to provide easy access to web-based education that incorporates sources to increase knowledge and support healthy measures and a positive attitude regarding PCOS. This is done using a set of technical and instructional standards developed by a web-based design team and an information technology expert. The researchers provided the web designer with word-processed documents representing each distinct learning session, videos, a storyboard of suggested graphics, and a description of interactions.

The development team met once a week to go over any issues that might occur with the module, to offer ideas and comments where appropriate, and to address any queries that might have come up while each session was being developed. The web-based design team and researchers chose a learning platform that gave users access to data, tools, and resources to support the administration and delivery of education about PCOS and associated preventive actions online. To get rid of Wix's pop-up advertisements, the researchers bought a distinctive website domain URL.