Development and evaluation of the usefulness of an infographic on reproduction for multiple sclerosis patients

Abstract

Introduction

Recurrent-remitent sender multiple sclerosis (RRMS) often affects fertile women and family planning (FP) is an important issue, where patients continue to have doubts. Infographic is a visual tool for transmitting messages that can be useful in health education.

Objectives

Prepare an infographic on RRMS and reproduction and evaluate its usefulness in relation to obtaining knowledge in women of childbearing age affected by this disease and who are cared for in our center.

Method

We carry out a questionnaire for the selection of 5 topics to 10 patients affected by RRMS and between 18 and 35 years old and an infographic is developed with the most voted. We then delivered a pre- and post-visualization questionnaire of the infographic to 10 other patients, which values the subjective perception of graduated knowledge in good/regular/bad and makes 7 yes/no answer questions.

Results

The infographic reports on: inheritance, treatments for MS and pregnancy, pregnancy and evolution of MS, pregnancy planning and postpartum. Mean of pre-infography hits was 4.4 and post-infography was 5.6 (increase 17%). 60% improved their pointing after viewing the infographic, 30% kept it and 10% made it worse. Subjective perception of pre-infography knowledge was 33.3% “good” and 66.6% regular, and post-infography changed to 77.7% “good” and 22.2% “regular”. None of them valued it as “bad” and one did not answer this question.

Conclusions and/or discussion

There are certain topics of greater interest within PF in RRMS patients that can be presented through an infographic, which seems useful in nursing work in health education.