Development and Evaluation of the Antenatal Education Material to Improve Prevention of Pregnancy Complication Using ICT in Tanzania

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Category Primary study
Registry of TrialsUMIN Clinical Trials Registry
Year 2019
INTERVENTION: The mobile phone App contains antenatal educational movie that teaches pregnant women and their family the importance of birth preparation and family integration to achieve safe delivery. The smartphone App is named "Midwifery Up!" aiming to update the knowledge of midwives so that they can provide proper information and care for pregnant women in timely manner. Midwifery Up! will contain movies to teach pregnant women about danger signs, a calculator of expected due date, WHO recommendations on antenatal care for positive pregnancy experience. A Forum page will be created for midwives and doctors as well as pregnant women can discuss local health knowledge and behaviors. For the control group, pregnant women receive regular care. CONDITION: Pregnancy complications PRIMARY OUTCOME: The 38 items of the questionnaire include knowledge about safe pregnancy and danger signs, attitude toward behavior related to pregnancy and childbirth, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention for the childbirth. They will be measured at the baseline and the outcome approximately 3 months after the baseline. SECONDARY OUTCOME: Mini quiz to measure knowledge improvement among nurses/midwives and 23 items on women‐centered care. At the intervention, after nurses/midwives download the App, they can take pre‐test, and they can take post‐test one month after starting using the App. INCLUSION CRITERIA:
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