Health Information management
Maryam Okhovati; Najmeh Izadifar
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Introduction: Maintaining the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy requires knowledge of pregnancy care. This study endeavors to investigate the role of online news and information search skills in the area of pregnancy of pregnant women in Kohnouj in improving their health information search ...
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Introduction: Maintaining the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy requires knowledge of pregnancy care. This study endeavors to investigate the role of online news and information search skills in the area of pregnancy of pregnant women in Kohnouj in improving their health information search behavior during pregnancy.Methods: This research is a semi-experimental type (pre-test-post-test with a control group). The statistical population of the research is pregnant women in the Kohnuj. The sample was 48 pregnant women who were randomly selected and divided into two intervention and control groups. The instrument 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.Results: 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. Besides, information search skills after educational interventions in the control group increased little, but in the intervention group, this increase was 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 to take care of themselves and the fetus. As such, it led to the improvement of their search for health information in the field of pregnancy during the pregnancy period.
Abdolrasool Khosravi; Sareh Ebrahimi Davvasi; Fatemh Najafi Sharjabad; Shohreh SeyyedHosseini
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Introduction: Improving the health literacy of pregnant women facilitates their understanding of health information before, during, and after pregnancy and has a direct impact on the health of the child during the years development. Therefore, due to the importance of health literacy for pregnant women, ...
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Introduction: Improving the health literacy of pregnant women facilitates their understanding of health information before, during, and after pregnancy and has a direct impact on the health of the child during the years development. Therefore, due to the importance of health literacy for pregnant women, this study was conducted to determine health literacy of pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr.Methods: This study was an analytical-survey research. The population was 306 pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr who were selected by randomized clustering. Data were collected using health literacy questionnaire, demographic, medical, and midwifery checklist. Chi-square and Fisher test were used to analyze the data.Results: Findings revealed that 51% of pregnant women had inadequate health literacy, 25% had border health literacy, and 24% had adequate health literacy. According to the results, there was a significant relationship between the women's education (P=0.041)/ job (P=0.005), their husband's education (P=0.034)/ job (P=0.010), the pregnancy frequency (P=0.05), and health literacy. Furthermore, women who had experienced the second pregnancy or more had a higher health literacy compared with primiparous women (=18%).Conclusion: The results showed that majority of the pregnant women referring to health centers had a low health literacy. It could be recommended to educate health literacy skills and empowerment of pregnant mothers in different groups through content materials in simple language and provide oral and visual training to pregnant women.
Zivar Sabaghinejad; Fatemeh Baji; Maryam Vejdani
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Introduction: Pregnant women use the Internet to meet their information needs. Despite the contradictory information on the web, the increase in anxiety and its negative effects on fetal growth and maternal health, the importance of online search for health information becomes apparent. Therefore, the ...
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Introduction: Pregnant women use the Internet to meet their information needs. Despite the contradictory information on the web, the increase in anxiety and its negative effects on fetal growth and maternal health, the importance of online search for health information becomes apparent. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine online health information search behavior among pregnant women referred to Fatemeh Alzahra hospital in Ahvaz City, Iran, based on the Davis technology admission model.Methods: The present study was conducted using survey method. The study population consisted of pregnant women referring to Fatemeh Alzahra hospital in year 2019. Based on Cochran's formula, a sample size of 357 people was calculated. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire; the initial version of it was prepared with 34 questions. Research data were analyzed using correlation test and regression analysis.Results: Health information seeking behavior among the studied pregnant women was desirable, with an average of higher than 3 in all variables. The variables of convenience, trust, and usefulness at the level of more than 50% explained the attitude and ultimately the search for health information among pregnant women.Conclusion: The pregnant women of current study had the same information needs as other women in domestic and foreign research. An important issue in this regard is the high level of trust in online information, which highlights the need for health centers to pay attention to health education and health information literacy during pregnancy.
