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The effect of educational intervention program on promoting preventive behaviors of urinary tract infection in girls:
Zahra Ahmadi1, Mohsen Shamsi2, Nasrin Roozbahani3
1Department of Health Education, Faculty of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Insights
Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) education significantly improved urinary tract infection (UTI) prevention behaviors in mothers of young daughters. This intervention is recommended for widespread use to protect children's health.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Health
- Public Health Interventions
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in children and can lead to severe complications.
- Mothers play a crucial role in preventing UTIs in young daughters.
- Understanding factors influencing preventive behaviors is key to effective interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the effectiveness of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)-based education.
- To promote urinary tract infection (UTI) preventive behaviors in mothers of daughters under two.
- To assess the impact of a structured educational intervention on maternal practices.
Main Methods:
- An educational randomized controlled trial involving 100 mothers with daughters under two.
- Participants were randomly assigned to either an intervention or control group.
- Data were collected using a validated TPB questionnaire, with pre- and post-intervention assessments.
Main Results:
- The TPB-based education group showed significantly higher TPB construct scores post-intervention compared to the control group.
- Maternal performance of UTI prevention behaviors increased significantly in the intervention group (from 2.85 to 3.74 out of 4).
- The intervention demonstrated a statistically significant impact (p=0.001).
Conclusions:
- TPB-based education with active follow-up effectively enhanced UTI preventive behaviors in mothers.
- The findings support the use of TPB in designing health education programs for pediatric UTI prevention.
- Implementing such programs in healthcare settings can improve child health outcomes and reduce UTI-related complications.
Background:
Urinary tract infection is one of the most common infectious diseases in children, which can lead to serious complications for a child. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) -based education on the promotion of preventive behaviors of urinary tract infection in mothers with a daughter under age two.
Methods:
The present study is an educational randomized controlled trial that its sample consisted of 100 mothers who had a daughter under age two. They were selected through convenience sampling and then were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups (each group included 50 participants). The data collection tool was a reliable and valid questionnaire based on TPB constructs. First, in both groups, the pre-test was administrated and then the educational intervention in the intervention group was conducted in the form of four educational sessions in 1 month (based on the pre-test need assessment) and then 3 months after the intervention (according to the ideas of Panel of Experts), post-test in both groups was administrated and then the data were analyzed through SPSS version 23 software with inferential statistics (independent t-test, paired t-test, and chi-square). The significance level was considered 0.05.
Results:
Three months after the intervention, the mean score of the constructs of TPB in the intervention group was significantly higher than the control group. The performance of prevention of urinary tract infection in the intervention group before the education increased from 2.85 ± 0.51 to 3.74 ± 0.29 (out of 4) (p = 0.001).
Conclusions:
TPB-based education with active and interventional follow-up was effective in promoting the preventive behaviors of urinary tract infection. Therefore, due to the side effects of UTI, especially in vulnerable periods such as childhood, it is recommended that trainings based on this model be carried out in other health care centers in order to maintain children health.
Trial Registration:
This trial has been registered at IRCT, IRCT2017031533090N1. Registered on 9 July 2017, https://en.irct.ir/trial/25621.
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