Abstract
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the digital storytelling (DS) method to raise fertility awareness (FA). This research is a pretest-posttest randomized controlled experimental study. The population of the study consisted of women who applied to the gynecology and obstetrics outpatient clinics of state hospital in March and October 2023 for who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. Data for the study were gathered using Personal Introduction Form and Fertility Awareness Scale. physical and cognitive awareness levels of women in the intervention and control groups were similar before FA (P>0.05), and after training was given to the experimental group, all awareness levels increased significantly in the intervention group (P
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