Health education interventions on knowledge and self-care practices for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Introduction: Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are a global health problem. Health education is a strategy that provides pregnant women with knowledge and skills for self-care.

Objective: evaluate the effect of health education interventions on pregnant women's knowledge and self-care practices for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, compared to standard prenatal care.

Materials and methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. The study record can be consulted in PROSPERO (CRD42021252401). The search will be conducted in the following databases, PubMed/MEDLINE, CENTRAL, LILACS, CINAHL, EMBASE, and WoS. Additionally, clinical trial records in ClinicalTrials and grey literature in OpenGrey and Google Scholar. The search will include studies of health education intervention in knowledge and self-care practices about hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. All statistical analysis will be carried out with the Review Manager software. Data will be combined using random-effects models, binary data with odds ratios or relative risks, and continuous data using mean differences. Heterogeneity between studies will be assessed using the Q-Cochran test to measure the significance and the l2 statistic to measure magnitude.

Discussion: This study will contribute to the knowledge of health interventions that are effective in guiding and educating pregnant women about the disease and self-care practices.

Conclusion: The results of this study will be used to provide recommendations in the management of maternal perinatal care, that promote comprehensive care in accordance with the Primary Health Care policy.