Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 kahnooj islamic azad university
2 Assistant Professor, Medical Library and Information Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Maintaining the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy requires knowledge of pregnancy care. The aim of the research is to investigate the role of online news and information search skills in the area of pregnancy of pregnant women in Kohnouj city in improving their health information search behavior during pregnancy.
Method: The current research is a semi-experimental type of research (pre-test-post-test with a control group). The statistical population of the research is pregnant women in the city of Kohnuj. The research sample was 48 pregnant women of this city who were randomly selected and divided into two intervention and control groups. The tool for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its Cronbach's alpha coefficient was equal to 0.828. The data was analyzed by SPSS software.
Findings: The mean scores of mothers' health literacy increased slightly in the control group after educational interventions, but the increase was higher in the intervention group. Also, information search skills after educational interventions in the control group increased very little, but in the intervention group, this increase was very high. In other words, teaching information search skills to mothers in the intervention group has been effective in increasing and improving their health information search skills in the field of pregnancy.
Conclusion: Information search skills training had a positive effect on increasing the level of awareness of pregnant women in order to take care of themselves and the fetus, so that it ultimately led to the improvement of their search for health information in the field of pregnancy during the pregnancy period.
Keywords: Health Literacy, Information searching skills , Pregnant women, Health information searching.
Keywords
- "؛ Health Literacy"؛ Information searching skills"؛
- "؛ Pregnant women"؛
- "؛ Health information searching"
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