Elaboración y valoración de utilidad de una infografía sobre la reproducción para pacientes con esclerosis múltiple

Introduction

Recurrent-remitent sender multiple sclerosis (RRMS) often affects fertile women and family planning 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

An infographic was elaborated with 5 topics on EMRR and reproduction from a questionnaire delivered to 10 women between 18 and 35 years old affected by this disease. Subsequently, the degree of pre and post-visualization knowledge of the infographic was evaluated in 10 other patients.

Results

The infographic reports on: inheritance, treatments for multiple sclerosis and pregnancy, pregnancy and evolution of multiple sclerosis, pregnancy planning and postpartum. Mean of pre-infography hits was 4.4 and post-infography was 5.6 (increase 17%). A percentage of 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% “moderate”, and post-infography changed to 77.7% “good” and 22.2% “moderate”. None of them valued it as “bad” and one did not answer this question.

Conclusions and discussion

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