@article{ajnr2018611,
author={{Ramadan, Soad A. and Said, Amira R.},
title={Effect of an Educational Intervention for Infertile Women Regarding Natural Fertility Methods and Sexual Skills for Improving Sexual Function},
journal={American Journal of Nursing Research},
volume={6},
number={1},
pages={1--11},
year={2018},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajnr/6/1/1},
issn={2378-5586},
abstract={<b>Background</b><b>:</b> Nowadays, infertility is considered as a social concern which can lead to the couplesĄŻ psychological imbalance, relationship disturbance and divorce. Sexual satisfaction is mainly affected by the consequences of infertility, such as decrease of self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and sexual relationship with failure in reproduction. <b>Aim:</b> was to evaluate the effect of an educational intervention on infertile womenĄŻ knowledge, practices and attitude regarding natural fertility methods and it is effect on female sexual function. <b>Research</b><b> </b><b>design:</b> A quasi experimental design was used. <b>Setting:</b> The study was carried out in the Gynecology clinic at Benha University Hospital. Purposive <b>sample</b> was used to recruit 100 infertile women attending to the Gynecology clinic at Benha University Hospital during seven months. Three <b>tools</b> were used for data collections: A Structured interviewing questionnaire, womenĄŻs attitude toward adaptation of infertility and female sexual function index was conducted to assess sexual function in infertile women. <b>Results:</b> Revealed that 49.0% of women had poor knowledge before intervention. However, 73.0% of them had good knowledge after one month of intervention respectively. Moreover, there was a highly statistically significant correlation (P &lt; 0.01) between the infertile women' sexual function scores pre and post one month of intervention. As well as, only 4.0 % of the studied women had positive attitude toward adaptation of infertility before intervention. Meanwhile, after one month of intervention the positive attitude changed to 92.0% respectively. <b>Conclusion:</b> the implementation of an educational intervention was effective and significantly improved womenĄŻs knowledge, practice and attitude towards natural fertility methods and sexual skills. The study <b>recommended</b> that adequately planned in-service training programs related to sexual function and satisfaction must be established to develop womenĄŻs knowledge, practices and attitude in order to fit newly developed concepts for adaptation.},
doi={10.12691/ajnr-6-1-1}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}