Background: Preconception care programmes aim to improve women's health and well-being before they become pregnant.
Aim: To assess the effectiveness of an
educational premarital programme aimed at empowering Egyptian premarital women
with the concepts of self-efficacy and locus of control behaviours.
MMethods: 84 premarital females were recruited conveniently from five primary
health care centres in Port Said City, Egypt, using a quasi-experimental,
quantitative (pre/post one group) research design. Data was collected using two
main tools: the locus of control scale and the self-efficacy of diet and
physical workouts, which were used to assess adults' self-efficacy for diet
(fat, salt) and exercise.
Results: The average age of the women was 23.26 4.2, with the majority having a
bachelor's degree and being unemployed. With a p-value of 0.000, the difference
between pre and post total mean score of internal and external locus of
control, self-efficacy of eating healthy foods, and motivated behaviour
connected to physical activities was highly statistically significant.
Conclusion: Preconception educational intervention had a positive effect on
empowering a sense of locus of control and self-efficacy behaviours among study
participants, as evidenced by a statistically significant difference between pre-test
and post-test of multidimensional locus of control through improving their
self-efficacy regarding eating and exercise
Recommendation: Integrate preconception educational programmes into PMC
services to ensure the dissemination of information related to locus of control
behaviours, healthy lifestyles, and motivation behaviour of regular physical
exercises, which will improve reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes for
future Egyptian mothers.
Author (s) Details
Prof. Amal I. Khalil
Faculty of Nursing,
Menoufyia University, Egypt and College of Nursing, King Saud bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Sciences, KSA.
Associate professor Howieda Fouly
College of Nursing, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences,
KSA and Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt.
Reda I. Elmowafy
Department of Family and Community Health Nursing, Port Said
University, Egypt.
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