Effectiveness of an educational game for pregnant women: aggregated knowledge and the women’s experience^a

ABSTRACT

Objectives

to verify the effectiveness of an educational game for pregnant women about their rights during labor and delivery; to compare the knowledge of pregnant women about their rights before and after applying the game and to investigate how good this experience was for them.

Method

quantitative study with secondary qualitative analysis. Data collection took place between July and September 2019. Participants were 51 pregnant women attended at two Primary Health Units of the city of Guarulhos. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov and the non-parametric Wilcoxon tests were used. The level of significance adopted was .05. Lexical content analysis was performed with the use of the Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires software.

Results

the mean knowledge of the pregnant women after the educational activity was higher than the mean knowledge before the activity (Z = -5.924; p = .000). There was a significant difference when comparing the assessment of the pregnant women’s knowledge before and after the game (p = .000). The responses of the pregnant women emphasized the positivity of the educational action and valued the images of the game as an innovative educational resource.

Conclusion and Implications for practice

The study demonstrated that the game was effective for use in guiding pregnant women playfully and that knowledge was gained in an imagetic and participatory way.

Keywords:
Health Education; Nursing; Games and Toys; Childbirth; Women’s Health