Health education interventions on knowledge and self-care practices for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy:...

Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are a global health problem. Health education is a strategy that provides pregnant women with knowledge and skills for self-care.

evaluate the effect of health education interventions on pregnant women's knowledge and self-care practices for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, compared to standard prenatal care.

Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. The study record can be consulted in PROSPERO (CRD42021252401). The search will be conducted in the following databases, PubMed/MEDLINE, CENTRAL, LILACS, CINAHL, EMBASE, and WoS. Additionally, clinical trial records in ClinicalTrials and grey literature in OpenGrey and Google Scholar. The search will include studies of health education intervention in knowledge and self-care practices about hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. All statistical analysis will be carried out with the Review Manager software. Data will be combined using random-effects models, binary data with odds ratios or relative risks, and continuous data using mean differences. Heterogeneity between studies will be assessed using the Q-Cochran test to measure the significance and the l2 statistic to measure magnitude.

This study will contribute to the knowledge of health interventions that are effective in guiding and educating pregnant women about the disease and self-care practices.

The results of this study will be used to provide recommendations in the management of maternal perinatal care, that promote comprehensive care in accordance with the Primary Health Care policy.