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The effect of educational program based on health belief model on anemic pregnant women’s knowledge and perception regarding anemia
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MAGROOM SENIAR, BADEEAH M.NAJEEB
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Background and objective: As one of the most prevalent nutritional deficiencies among women of
reproductive age, anemia can lead to serious complications for both pregnant women and neonates. Health
Belief Model has been proposed as a basis to develop nutrition improvement programs in order to change and
improve dietary behaviors, perceptions, and practice, which can finally improve conditions caused by anemia.
The present study was aimed at examining the effects of an HBM-based educational program on anemic
pregnant women’s dietary perception, knowledge, and practice.
Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental experiment that was conducted on 110 anemic
pregnant women. The required data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire, a packed cell
volume (PCV), and a checklist, which were all used in the beginning and end of the study as pretests and
posttests . The collected data were analyzed using Chi-squire test, McNemar’s test, paired samples T-test, and
Mann-Whitney test through SPSS 20.0.
Results: The results of the present study indicated that as a result of the proposed health belief model-based
educational program in the end of the experiment, the intervention women were significantly different with
the control women in terms of their anemia-related knowledge, perception, and practice (p>0.001).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, it was concluded that health belief model can be
utilized as an effective tool to change dietary and nutritional behavior and practice and also knowledge and
perception regarding anemia among pregnant women.
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anemia, health belief model, educational program pregnant women, knowledge, perception
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2019.11.02.107
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