Educational intervention to increase the level of knowledge about vaginal infection in pregnant women

Introduction: vaginal infections affect women of all ages, who have mostly presented the disease at some point in their lives; no differences are related to race or ethnic origin. Objective: to design an educational intervention that increase the level of knowledge about vaginal infection in pregnant women of the medical office "El Gremio No. 1", Baracoa, Guantanamo, from October 2015 to May 2017. Method: it was carried out a pre-experimental study of educational intervention in an intentional non-probabilistic sample of 16 pregnant women. The study was carried out in three stages: diagnostic stage, intervention stage and evaluation stage. The primary data was obtained from the survey applied before and after the intervention. The results were presented in contingency tables and the summary measure the percentage. The variation percentage was used to measure the effectiveness of the intervention. Results: before the intervention, there was evident knowledge about the types of vaginal infection, risk factors and methods of prevention of vaginal infection in pregnancy and application of the technique of cleanliness and the use of boiled water. The study permited to increase the level of knowledge about the infection after the intervention. Conclusions: the level of knowledge was increased, an aspect that demonstrates the effectiveness of the intervention proposal.