Previously submitted to: JMIR Formative Research (no longer under consideration since Oct 22, 2021)
Date Submitted: Jun 28, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 2, 2020 - Jan 2, 2021
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
SOCIAL MEDIA AS POTENTIAL MEANS IN INCREASING KNOWLEDGE ON LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES (LBWB) AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Background:
LBWB is birth weight of less than 2500 grams. New born mortality is 50% higher with adolescent mothers. Adolescents who give birth at the age of 15–19 years have a higher risk of neonatal death. Adolescents are easily accessed as they use social media in their daily lives.
Objective:
This study aims to determine social media as potential means in increasing knowledge on LBWB among adolescents.
Methods:
This study was cross sectional with total respondent was 286 adolescents aged 16–18 from 2 schools (urban and rural areas). Chi square and Logistic Regression analysis were used in this study.
Results:
The research showed that 108 (75.5%) of respondents in urban and 61 (42.7%) in rural area respondents have access social media. Mostly adolescent in urban areas used Instagram while in rural areas used Facebook to seek out LBWB knowledge. Even though, 92.7% of adolescents had heard the term premature baby, only 24.5% of respondents knew what is the normal range gestational age. There was a significant relationship between social media and knowledge of LBWB (p-0.01). Based on multivariate analysis, adolescents who had high access to social media had 3.047 times higher of having high knowledge of LBWB in comparison to those who have low access.
Conclusions:
This study showed that social media had potential means in order to increase LBWB knowledge among adolescents. Mostly adolescent in urban used Instagram while in rural used Facebook.
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