Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Mar 2, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Mar 1, 2023 - Mar 16, 2023
Date Accepted: Nov 29, 2023
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Online Prenatal Education for Improving Adverse Outcomes during Pregnancy: Retrospective Observational Study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Pregnancy is one of the most sensitive and important chapters of a woman’s life. Adequate quality and quantity of prenatal education play a key role in improving the health of pregnant women and their offspring. Online-based prenatal education is an effective and timely manner that could increase the accessibility of prenatal education to address finite healthcare resources and the risk of face-to-face education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Objective:
This study aims to develop an effective online education curriculum, and retrospectively estimate the effectiveness of this curriculum.
Methods:
The online education curriculum was developed based on the experiences and professional knowledge of obstetricians and nurses, and the curriculum was provided to pregnant women after deploying in the app. A total of 533 pregnant women who learned the curriculum we developed were retrospectively involved in this study, between May 2021 and August 2022. The hypothesis testing was conducted between the learning group and the control group. The learning group consisted of pregnant women who had received a specific topic course. Besides, we also analyzed the composition of topics among all courses and found the pregnant women’s favorite course topic.
Results:
The online education curriculum was developed with 449 sessions that contain 9 topic types. Among all pregnant women, 56.67% (302/533) attended online education in the first and second trimesters and 43.33% (231/533) in the third trimester. The pregnant women who received painless labor had a lower rate of macrosomia (2.24% VS. 6.04%, P<.05). Pregnancy nutrition could reduce adverse birth outcomes (1.07% VS. 3.97%, P<.05). Gestational hypertension is reduced by Obstetric examination and Daily health care (0.62% VS. 2.83%, P<.05; 0.81%VS.3.11%, P<.05). The results also suggested painless labor and postpartum recovery are pregnant women’s favorite topics.
Conclusions:
Prenatal education is essential for the health of pregnant women and their offspring. We had developed the online education curriculum and the effectiveness of some courses had been estimated. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the online education we developed could provide more professional information to pregnant women and release the burden of healthcare.
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