a. Development of educational materials
illness, ill
DISEASE, MINOR
analysis of pre-test results revealed that many of our participants did not have information about the warning signs or symptoms of illness and the appropriate time to visit a doctor. The rate of self-treatment was high, and they only referred to the doctor if they were severely ill or felt ill for a long time; or they referred to the doctor only when vital organs were also involved. They had little information about how to manage some of the minor signs of illness at home. According to the need assessment of participants, we used several educational resources to improve their HCSB:
A booklet in Farsi, titled “Educational posters to increase knowledge and sensitivity to the intervention program installed in neighborhood health care centers and schools;Educational pamphlets (for three groups of women of reproductive age, health staff and husbands):Internet-based women’s health education channel containing educational text content, videos and images (also available to other family members);Two native educational apps, one for the early diagnosis of the disease according to reported symptoms, and the other for locating health centers, laboratories and pharmacies across the city; The selection of educational resources was carried out according to the participants’ initial need assessment and also assessment of access to them. The resources were offered to experimental group at certain intervals until the completion of the intervention. The educational programs for experimental group were held at the health centers, and the participants of the two groups were not in contact with each other. Therefore, women from control group did not exposed to educational resources and they only received routine education from health staff.