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‘The newest vital sign among pregnant women attending women wellness and research Centre in Qatar: a cross-sectional study’

BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a vital strategy to consider when designing health-promoting programs, and health literacy is a priority in Qatar’s national health agenda. In the context of pregnancy, inadequate health literacy has been linked to several adverse outcomes among pregnant women such as...

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Autores principales: Naja, Sarah, Elyamani, Rowaida, Al Ibrahim, Abdullah, Al Kubaisi, Noora, Itani, Rayan, AbdulRouf, Palli
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7819321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33478419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03542-w
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author Naja, Sarah
Elyamani, Rowaida
Al Ibrahim, Abdullah
Al Kubaisi, Noora
Itani, Rayan
AbdulRouf, Palli
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description BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a vital strategy to consider when designing health-promoting programs, and health literacy is a priority in Qatar’s national health agenda. In the context of pregnancy, inadequate health literacy has been linked to several adverse outcomes among pregnant women such as unplanned conception, smoking, and lack of multi-vitamin intake. Given the paucity of data, this study aimed to assess the level of health literacy and its determinants among pregnant women in the State of Qatar. METHODS: An analytical cross-sectional design was utilized. First, we piloted the measurement tools on 10% of the calculated sample size. Accordingly, the items of the measurement tools were revised. Next, we utilized a structured questionnaire to interview the participants about their socio-demographic characteristics, pregnancy-related factors, and the Newest Vital Sign Tool. A chi-square test was employed to investigate the association level among variables, with significance set to P < 0.05. A logistic regression model was used to identify the factors associated with a low literacy level. RESULTS: We found that almost four in 10 pregnant women (n = 138,45.4%) had inadequate health literacy. Furthermore, the insufficient level of health literacy was significantly associated with low educational background, decreased household income, and primigravida. However, uncontrolled glycaemia was the only significant predictor of inadequate health literacy through logistic regression. The scale was found to be reliable, with a calculated Cronbach’s alpha of 0.8. CONCLUSIONS: Low health literacy is common among pregnant women in the State of Qatar. Thus, public health officials should focus on delivering tailored health literacy interventions to pregnant women in the country. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-021-03542-w.
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spelling pubmed-78193212021-01-22 ‘The newest vital sign among pregnant women attending women wellness and research Centre in Qatar: a cross-sectional study’ Naja, Sarah Elyamani, Rowaida Al Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Kubaisi, Noora Itani, Rayan AbdulRouf, Palli BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a vital strategy to consider when designing health-promoting programs, and health literacy is a priority in Qatar’s national health agenda. In the context of pregnancy, inadequate health literacy has been linked to several adverse outcomes among pregnant women such as unplanned conception, smoking, and lack of multi-vitamin intake. Given the paucity of data, this study aimed to assess the level of health literacy and its determinants among pregnant women in the State of Qatar. METHODS: An analytical cross-sectional design was utilized. First, we piloted the measurement tools on 10% of the calculated sample size. Accordingly, the items of the measurement tools were revised. Next, we utilized a structured questionnaire to interview the participants about their socio-demographic characteristics, pregnancy-related factors, and the Newest Vital Sign Tool. A chi-square test was employed to investigate the association level among variables, with significance set to P < 0.05. A logistic regression model was used to identify the factors associated with a low literacy level. RESULTS: We found that almost four in 10 pregnant women (n = 138,45.4%) had inadequate health literacy. Furthermore, the insufficient level of health literacy was significantly associated with low educational background, decreased household income, and primigravida. However, uncontrolled glycaemia was the only significant predictor of inadequate health literacy through logistic regression. The scale was found to be reliable, with a calculated Cronbach’s alpha of 0.8. CONCLUSIONS: Low health literacy is common among pregnant women in the State of Qatar. Thus, public health officials should focus on delivering tailored health literacy interventions to pregnant women in the country. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-021-03542-w. BioMed Central 2021-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7819321/ /pubmed/33478419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03542-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Elyamani, Rowaida
Al Ibrahim, Abdullah
Al Kubaisi, Noora
Itani, Rayan
AbdulRouf, Palli
‘The newest vital sign among pregnant women attending women wellness and research Centre in Qatar: a cross-sectional study’
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title_short ‘The newest vital sign among pregnant women attending women wellness and research Centre in Qatar: a cross-sectional study’
title_sort ‘the newest vital sign among pregnant women attending women wellness and research centre in qatar: a cross-sectional study’
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7819321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33478419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03542-w
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