The effect of web-based genital hygiene education provided to the women with disabilities on their self-care agency and genital hygiene behaviors: A randomized controlled trial.

ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE intervals; INTERNET; HYGIENE; FEMALE reproductive organs; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PRE-tests & post-tests; CRONBACH'S alpha; T-test (Statistics); COMPARATIVE studies; HEALTH behavior; SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; RESEARCH funding; PEOPLE with disabilities; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; HEALTH self-care; REPRODUCTIVE health

In this study, we examined the effect of web-based genital hygiene education provided to women with orthopedically disability on self-care agency and genital hygiene behaviors. The research was conducted as a randomized controlled trial. 62 participants in the sample group were randomly assigned. There were statistically significant differences between the pretest, mid-test and post-test total mean scores of Self-Care Scale, Genital Hygiene Behavior Scale and all sub-dimensions in the expiremental group (p < 0.001) and there was not a significant difference in the control group (p > 0.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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