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Impact of Premarital counseling on Awareness of Female Nursing Students

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Hepa Hanafy Farghaly , Amal Mohamed EL-Dakhakhny & Bataa Mahmoud Mohamed
ยป doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.2.2024.4261-4273

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Background: Premarital counseling is a worldwide activity aiming to diagnose, treat unrecognized disorders, and reduce transmission of diseases to couples. Aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of premarital counseling on awareness of female nursing students. Subjects and Methods: Research Design: A quasi experimental study design was utilized in this study Setting: The study was conducted on Belbis nursing school Subjects: The study was conducted on a sample of 95 female nursing students. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used in the present study. The first tool was role Concepts scale to assess expectations regarding the husband-wife roles in the future relationship, The second tool was the relationship scale to describe the feelings about the relationship and the third tool was conflict resolution styles inventory Results: The results of the present study revealed that 55.8% of the studied adolescent girls had satisfied score of relationships pre-intervention compared to 84.2% post intervention, 10.5% of the studied adolescent girls had satisfactory level of total conflict resolution styles score before the intervention compared to 65.3% after intervention. In addition, 41.1% of the studied adolescent girls had positive attitude regarding role concept pre-intervention compared to 86.3% post intervention conclusion: The implementation of educational program was effective in improving the awareness of female nursing students for premarital counseling. Recommendation: Provide health education about premarital counseling to all couples during their attendance for the health certification before the marriage.

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