Application of continuous care model on Health-Related Behaviors and Quality of Life among infertile women

Background: female infertility is considered a crisis in women’s life and would affect different aspects of their quality of life. Infertile women need to improve health-related behaviors and sustain the appropriate quality of life through continuous education. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of application of continuous care model on health-related behaviors and quality of life among infertile women. Design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at the obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic, and IVF unit at Benha University Hospital, Benha City, Egypt. Sampling: A convenient sample of (80) infertile women and was divided equally into control and study group.Tools: three tools were used for data collection; a structured interviewing questionnaire, Health-related behaviors, and a quality of life (QOL) questionnaire. Results: present that (67.5%) of the intervention group and (72.5%) of the control group were ˂ 30 years old. there was no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups concerning all items of health-related behaviors regarding infertility before implementation of the continuous care model (p ˃ 0.05), while there was a highly statistically significant improvement achieved in the intervention group compared with the control group after implementation of the continuous care model (p ≤ 0.001).
.Conclusion: the implementing of the continuous care model had improved the health-related behaviors among infertile women, Recommendation: Integration the continuous care model as a routine nursing intervention for improving infertile women's health-related behaviors and the quality of life.