Covid-19 is an emerging disease which spread rabidly and causes serious problems
with pregnancy as pregnant women is considered a high-risk group that needs special care. AIM:
Evaluate the effect of an educational intervention utilizing Health Belief Model on Pregnant
Women's compliance with preventive measures regarding COVID-19. DESIGN: A quasi
experimental design was utilized. SETTING: The study was conducted in Outpatient clinics of
obstetrics and gynecology at Benha university hospital. SAMPLING: Simple random sample
included 100 pregnant women. TOOLS: Three tools were used for data collection included a
structured interviewing questionnaire, Health Belief model and compliance of pregnant women with
preventive measures regarding COVID-19. RESULTS: there was a highly statistically significant
difference in the mean scores of the total knowledge and total Compliance with preventive measures
pre and post program application and pre-program and after 3 months and a highly statistically
significant improvement was found pre and post program application in all items of health belief
model (P