Manar Fathy Heiba^1,, Esraa Mostafa Abd El-Aty¹

Background: The precise incidence is unknown, many women often face a condition called pruritus vulvae, which can be basically the itching caused in vulva. While this may start with mild itching, if left untreated it can affect the health to a great extent. Aim: our target for the current study was to evaluate the impact of nursing intervention on improving personal hygienic practices among pruritus vulvae women. Subjects and Methods: The study was carried out at the outpatient (gynecological clinic) at two governmental hospitals located in Port Said city using a quasi-experimental research design. The study subjects consisted of 293 women with pruritus vulvae who attended at the outpatient gynecological clinic was recruited with this study in line with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The tools were used contains; A Structured interviewing schedule, evaluation form and follow up record were designed. Results indicates more than three quarters (76.1%) of women complained of itching in the external genitalia that has been frequent within just half (48.8%) of women and continuous in 33.8% of women. women follow inadequate hygienic practice traditional method (sitz bath) were much more likely (58.2% vs. 11.5%) to own primary/ preparatory school compared to other women follow adequate hygienic. Majority of women improved in knowledge and personal hygienic practices that revealed at the post (82% & 83.6%) and follow-up phases of the programs (66% & 87.2% respectively). Also, more than two third of women (68.3%) more like to reached complete improving from their complains. Meanwhile, surprising enough as much as 21.8% studied women faced recurrence of symptoms at follow up phase post two months. Conclusion: women’s receive program show an improvement of their knowledge and personal hygienic practices and so on complete improvement from their clinical features of pruritus vulva. Recommendation: Do and encourage continuous awareness and counseling improvement programs aiming to increase knowledge and personal hygienic practices of women's.

Pruritus vulvae, nursing interventions, personal hygienic practices