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ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2021

Effect of smartphone-based education on knowledge and self-care of reproductive health in married students.

Azam Karimi Vanestanagh, Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili, Khalil Esmaeilpour, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Niloufar Sattarzadeh Jahdi

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Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Azam Karimi VanestanaghDepartment of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Azizeh Farshbaf-KhaliliPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research Centre, Aging Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Khalil EsmaeilpourDepartment of Psychology,Faculty of Education and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.
Mohammad Asghari JafarabadiDepartment of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Niloufar Sattarzadeh JahdiDepartment of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Tabriz · IR

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Abstract

backgroundEducation 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

methodsThis 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

resultsEight 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 (

conclusionThe 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.

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Knowledgemobile applicationreproductive healthself-caresmart phonesoftware

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