Utilizing Smartphone Apps in Improving Pregnant Women’s Knowledge and Practices towards Pandemic COVID-19 Precautionary Measures | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 102, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2021, Page 1654-1666 PDF (390.04 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.256111 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Suzan El-Said Mansour1; Adel Al Al-Wehedy Ibrahim2; Nagwa Ibrahim El-Feshawy1 | ||||
| 1Woman's Health and Midwifery Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Public Health & Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of utilizing smartphone apps in improving pregnant women’s knowledge and practices towards pandemic COVID-19 precautionary measures. Materials and method: A quasi-experimental pre-posttest design was used. The study was conducted at antenatal clinics in Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt. Purposive sample technique was applied and included fifty-seven high-risk pregnant women. Data was collected through a structured interview questionnaire, an online electronic survey on the Google platform to assess the level of knowledge and practices regarding covid-19 precautionary measures, and the Satisfaction Likert scale. Results: There was a statistically significant improvement among the pregnant women regarding covid-19 knowledge in favor of post-intervention (P<0.001) as the percentage of good levels increased from 19.3 before intervention to 77.2% after the intervention. Likewise, there was a significantly (P<0.001) higher average practical score after the intervention, and a good practice level significantly (P<0.001) improved from 12.3% before intervention to 89.5% after the intervention. It was evident that there was a significant, mild, positive correlation between the knowledge score of the studied women after intervention and their scores of reported practical preventive measures (r=+0.274, P0.039). Moreover, the satisfaction level of studied women regarding the method and content was high ranging from 91.2% to 96.5% and 84.2% to 94.7% respectively. Conclusion: It was evident that utilizing smartphone apps was effective and had significantly improved knowledge level and practices average score among pregnant women toward COVID-19 protective measures. Recommendations: Utilizing modern technologies such as smartphone apps should be launched to solve the challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis and bring innovative solutions to the problems associated with this major disruption, as well as an attempt to stem contagion and effectively increase awareness, especially during the COVID -19 outbreak and Quarantine. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19; Knowledge; practices; precautionary measures; pregnant women | ||||
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