Effect of health education on congenital heart disease through internet model
HOU Yu-yan
ZHANG Shao-qin
HUANG Gui-min
SUN Yan-kun
LIU Yong-yan
LIU Meng-juan
WANG Yan-rong
ZHAO Xiao-lei
ZHANG Hui
WEI Dan
Abstract：Objective To investigate the level of knowledge about congenital heart disease(CHD)among pregnant women and conduct health education on CHD by the internet mode so as to improve the understand of CHD among them.Methods A questionnaire survey and health education on knowledge of CHD was conducted for the pregnant women through a WeChat app.They were randomly divided into the control group and the intervention group after signing the informed consent.The control group was given a questionnaire survey including 20 questions before the health education,while the intervention group was given health education first and then complete the questionnaire survey.The results of the survey were analyzed to compare the difference between the two groups.Results A total of 1099 cases were included in this study,including 557 in the intervention group and 542 in the control group.There was no difference between the two groups in terms of basic information such as age,gestational week,number of pregnancy,number of birth,literacy level and whether there was a history of adverse pregnancy and childbirth(P＞0.05),which made them comparable.Up to 70％cases in both the groups were willing to perform fetal echocardiography to exclude congenital heart disease voluntarily and there is no difference between the two groups.The awareness of the incidence(56.0％vs.32.8％,P＜0.05),clinical manifestations,prevention and treatment of congenital heart disease(16.2％vs.5.4％,P＜0.05),and the willingness to receive health education from specialist doctors(86.5％vs.81.4％,P＜0.05)all showed higher in the intervention group than the control group.The proportion of certain to continue or not to continue pregnancy were higher,while the proportion of those who were not quite sure decreased in the intervention group(P＜0.05).Conclusion The awareness of CHD is still at a low level in the pregnant women.The health education through the internet mode can improve it conveniently,but needs to be done repeatedly to improve their awareness and reduce the rate of voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Keywords：Congenital heart diseasePregnant womenTertiary preventionHealth promotionInternet model
Publication Date：2024-08-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 713-718 )