Abstract
Introduction: the community nurse plays a fundamental role in learning about the health of the people in his community, taking into account the environment, in constant interaction with the people. The community is the ideal context for the transmission of information, fostering motivation and the personal skills necessary to adopt measures aimed at improving health, using Health Education and the Nursing Care Process as the scientific method of the profession.
Objective: to implement an educational intervention on preconceptional risk to women of childbearing age. Hermanos Cruz Popular Council. Pinar del Río Municipality. Year 2023.
Methods: a technological development research was carried out in the Hermanos Cruz Popular Council, from January - December 2023. The theoretical level methods used were historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, systemic-structural; at the empirical level, documentary review, questionnaire, descriptive statistics were used and the Mc Nemar method was applied.
Results: knowledge of family planning increased to 93.7% after the educational intervention, knowledge of contraceptive methods reached 96.3%, and attendance at consultations increased to 69.0% after the intervention.
Conclusions: the educational intervention increased knowledge about family planning, preconceptional risk and contraceptive methods, and consultation attendance increased. The PHC nursing staff has a methodological instrument of Health Education for educational work on this topic.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Karelia Pérez Madrazo, Mailideleidy Serrano Pérez, Daymí Henrique Trujillo, Eunice Echevarría Cabrera, Delaray Núñez Sánchez (Author)