Effect of Hybrid Education Based on Health Belief Model on Nutritional Performance and Lifestyle among Mothers and Infants

Abstract

Background: In order to achieve sustainable development in terms of maternal and child quality of life,
continued work to enhance healthcare systems is essential. Although maternal nutrition impacts fetal
development and gestational outcome, tracking maternal nutrition in outpatient practice is still complex and
involves proper technical capitation in Egypt. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a hybrid
health education based on the health belief model on the nutritional performance and lifestyle of mothers and
infants.
Methods: Quasi-experimental design was utilized The study was conducted at the MCH in Mansoura city. A
purposive sample of 100 pregnant women and infants was included in the current study. Four tools were
used for data collection; the structured interviewing questionnaire, knowledge assessment questionnaire,
Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II, and the HBM.
Results: The participants' mean age was 29.96 ±4.19 years, 58% of the women were between five and seven
months of pregnancy. Mild discomfort during pregnancy reported by 58% of them. Additionally, there was
an improvement from 90% of them who had inadequate knowledge to 86% of them had satisfactory level of
knowledge regarding nutritional performance and a healthy lifestyle post-intervention with a highly
significant difference (p-values 0.001). Furthermore, 75.3 percent of newborns that were delivered had
normal body weights. There was a positive highly statistically significant correlation between total
knowledge, total HBM constructs and total HPLB. Likewise, there was a positive highly statistically
significant correlation coefficient between total HBM and Total HPLB among study subjects in post-test
assessment.
Conclusion and recommendation: Hybrid education was effective in improving nutritional performance
and lifestyle in maternal and infant health through regular health educational program based on HBM.