The Effect of Web Based Genital Hygiene Education Provided to Orthopedically Disabled Women

Siirt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Genital Infection; Disability Physical

Treatments: Other: web based education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04723381

1648

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of web-based genital hygiene education provided to orthopedically disabled women on self care agency and genital hygiene behaviors.

Full description

It was a randomized controlled trial. The women in the experimental group were given web-based genital hygiene education that continued for seven weeks. No intervention was applied to the women in the control group.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being orthopedically handicapped
• Being literate, being over the age of 18
• Having access to the internet
• Being able to use the internet/computer
• Being able to maintain genital hygiene individually.

Exclusion criteria

• The inability to use the internet
• Not being a member of the website
• Having mental retardation
• Being dependent on someone else to maintain genital hygiene (bedridden, with spasticity)
• No willing to complete the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Partivipants recieved web based genital hygiene education for seven week

Treatment:

Other: web based education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was applied to the women in the control group