Determining the predictors of preventive behaviors adopted by pregnant women against COVID-19 based on the Health Belief Model constructs: a cross sectional study.

Autor: Bayrami R; Patient Safety Research Center, Clinical Research Institute, Midwifery Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran., Masudi S; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran., Didarloo A; Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Clinical Research Institute, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran. didarloo_a@umsu.ac.ir., Nournezhad H; Master degree in Consultation in midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC women's health [BMC Womens Health] 2024 Sep 20; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 528. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 20.
DOI: 10.1186/s12905-024-03305-7
Abstrakt: Background: Pregnant women face great challenges during the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic. The purpose of this study was to explain the main dimensions of adoption of self-care behaviors against COVID-19 based on the health belief model(HBM) in pregnant women.
Methods: This cross-sectional and analytical study was conducted in Iran, at the end of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, between January and April 2021. Two hundred and thirty pregnant women who referred to Urmia health centers were selected using multi-stage random sampling. The data were collected using an online questionnaire including items that measured the participants' demographic characteristics, the knowledge questionnaire, the HBM items, and questions assessing the adoption of self-care behaviors against COVID-19. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20. Descriptive statistics, bivariate Pearson's correlation test, and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results of this study showed that the rate of self-care behaviors against COVID-19 in the pregnant women participating in the present study was not very favorable. It was also shown that among the constructs of the HBM, knowledge, self-efficacy, and perceived barriers were the most important predictors of adopting self-care behaviors with a variance of 24% change among the pregnant women.
Conclusion: Knowledge, self-efficacy, and perceived barriers were found in this study as the strongest predictors of self-care behaviors among pregnant women. Thus, it is suggested to implement interventions commensurate with the results of this study.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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