Ilankoon IMPS

Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Publications

• Research Article   
  Designing and Validating Written Education Material for Family Health Care Workers and Women of Reproductive Age
  Author(s): Ilankoon IMPS*, Goonewardena CSE, Fernandopulle RC and Perera PPR
  
  Background: Written education materials can be used as aids to verbal health education. Aim: This study aimed to develop and validate written educational materials for an educational intervention on vulvo-vaginal discharge. Materials and Methods: The design included need assessment, obtaining information through modi ied Delphi technique and validation by subject experts and validating by the Family Health Care Workers (FHCWs) and community participants as stakeholders in terms of understanding the contents of the educational materials. The need assessment phase of the study and the irst round of the Delphi study assisted in generating the low chart, pamphlet and a book on vulvo-vaginal discharge. The Delphi technique introduced modi ications to improve educational materials, with the experts agreeing on the inal m.. Read More»