Parisa Farzi Karamolahi|Zahra Bostani Khalesi|Maryam Niknami
Efficacy of mobile app-based training on health literacy among pregnant women: A randomized controlled trial study
Guilan University of Medical Sciences|Guilan University of Medical Sciences|Guilan University of Medical Sciences
objective health literacy mothers pregnancy shows social cognitive skills indicating motivation ability mothers receive use useful knowledge maintain promote health childrenthe present study conducted aimed determine effect mobile appbased training health literacy among pregnant womenstudy design random allocation clinical trial conducted 140 eligible mothersall participants randomly allocated experimental control groupsdata collection tools included personal information maternal health literacy questionnairesthe questionnaires completed mobile appbased training intervention performed experimental groupthe participants experimental group asked read contents software week 8 weeksthe questionnaires completed 8 weeks training interventionthe data analyzed using spss software version 21independent ttest mannwhitney u wilcoxon fisher chisquare kruskalwallis oneway analysis variance used purposeresults participants showed statistically significant difference terms demographicsocial information p 005the mean change health literacy scores intervention statistically significant experimental control groups p 0001also mean change health literacy scores intervention experimental group statistically significant p 0001but change control group statistically significant p 0609conclusions first time used mobile appbased training results showed effective health literacy pregnant women especially situations like corona virus pandemictherefore suggested health care providers especially midwives use training method promote health literacy pregnant women