TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of smartphone-based education on knowledge and self-care of reproductive health in married students
AU - Vanestanagh, Azam
AU - Farshbaf-Khalili, Azizeh
AU - Esmaeilpour, Khalil
AU - Jafarabadi, Mohammad
AU - Jahdi, Niloufar Sattarzadeh
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is the result of the master thesis of counseling in midwifery of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz. The project has been funded by the Research and Technology Deputy of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences) grant code: 63111). Therefore, researchers express their appreciation to funder and also all the participants and students who have collaborated in this project.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: Education by smartphone-based software is a new method among the world's educational practices. Due to the lack of studies on the effect of this education on promoting knowledge and self-care behaviors of students' reproductive health this study aimed to determine the effect of smartphone-based software education on knowledge and self-care behaviors in the field of reproductive health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This RCT with 164 married female students (82 in each group) conducted from October 2019 to January 2020, in Tabriz University and Tabriz medical University. Participants were randomly allocated to two groups of educational intervention and control. Smartphone-based software education designed in four areas of reproductive health. Intervention group was trained for 4 weeks. The score of knowledge and self-care behaviors of participants in both groups were compared at baseline and 8 weeks after intervention. Data were analyzed by SPSS-23 software using Chi-square, independent t-tests, and analysis of covariance tests. RESULTS: Eight weeks after the intervention, a significant increase was observed in the mean (standard deviation [SD]) score of overall knowledge for reproductive health and all its subdomains (P < 0.001), as well as in in the mean (SD) self-care score of reproductive health and all subdomains (P < 0.05), except for the family planning in the education group compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate a significant effect of smartphone-based software on increasing students' knowledge and self-care in all areas of reproductive health except for family planning subdomain of self-care.
AB - BACKGROUND: Education by smartphone-based software is a new method among the world's educational practices. Due to the lack of studies on the effect of this education on promoting knowledge and self-care behaviors of students' reproductive health this study aimed to determine the effect of smartphone-based software education on knowledge and self-care behaviors in the field of reproductive health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This RCT with 164 married female students (82 in each group) conducted from October 2019 to January 2020, in Tabriz University and Tabriz medical University. Participants were randomly allocated to two groups of educational intervention and control. Smartphone-based software education designed in four areas of reproductive health. Intervention group was trained for 4 weeks. The score of knowledge and self-care behaviors of participants in both groups were compared at baseline and 8 weeks after intervention. Data were analyzed by SPSS-23 software using Chi-square, independent t-tests, and analysis of covariance tests. RESULTS: Eight weeks after the intervention, a significant increase was observed in the mean (standard deviation [SD]) score of overall knowledge for reproductive health and all its subdomains (P < 0.001), as well as in in the mean (SD) self-care score of reproductive health and all subdomains (P < 0.05), except for the family planning in the education group compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate a significant effect of smartphone-based software on increasing students' knowledge and self-care in all areas of reproductive health except for family planning subdomain of self-care.
KW - Knowledge
KW - mobile application
KW - reproductive health
KW - self-care
KW - smart phone
KW - software
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115975310
U2 - 10.4103/jehp.jehp_548_20
DO - 10.4103/jehp.jehp_548_20
M3 - Article
C2 - 34084836
AN - SCOPUS:85115975310
SN - 2277-9531
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Journal of Education and Health Promotion
JF - Journal of Education and Health Promotion
IS - 1
M1 - 89
ER -