Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria
IntroductionNigeria accounts for 20% of all maternal mortality. Recently, more mobile health technology (mHealth) interventions are emerging in sub-Saharan Africa. The potential of mobile applications in maternal care has not been explored in Nigeria. This study describes the process of design, deve...
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| author | Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Adejumoke Idowu Ayede Amalia Colangelo Tuan Dung Nguyen Abdullahi Tunde Aborode Charles Umeh Maria Paula Hernandez Oluwaseyi Iyanuoluwa Ayede Oluwatobiloba Oluwadunni Ayede |
| author_facet | Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Adejumoke Idowu Ayede Amalia Colangelo Tuan Dung Nguyen Abdullahi Tunde Aborode Charles Umeh Maria Paula Hernandez Oluwaseyi Iyanuoluwa Ayede Oluwatobiloba Oluwadunni Ayede |
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| description | IntroductionNigeria accounts for 20% of all maternal mortality. Recently, more mobile health technology (mHealth) interventions are emerging in sub-Saharan Africa. The potential of mobile applications in maternal care has not been explored in Nigeria. This study describes the process of design, development, and testing of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria.MethodUsing a user-centered design, we conducted semi-structured interviews at each stage of mobile application development with pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Oyo State, Nigeria. The first interview focused on empathy, followed by alpha and beta testing of the mobile application prototype at health facilities.ResultsThe barriers to accessing perinatal care were the distance to the nearest facility (mean = 3.3 km), lack of perinatal education, and cost. The low-fidelity prototype of the mobile application was designed with five features. Mobile applications increased the level of knowledge of preeclampsia by 179%. User feedback from alpha testing informed the development of a high-fidelity prototype for beta testing. Ninety-five percent (95%) of pregnant women surveyed were willing to download the mobile application. The final application developed was uploaded to the Google Play Store (MyBelle pregnancy application).ConclusionmHealth applications have the potential to increase access to prenatal information and services in Nigeria and may reduce maternal and childhood mortality. This study has described the process of development of the first indigenous mobile application specifically for pregnant women in Nigeria using a user-centered design thinking approach. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2ece0c398d94247bae308d16894adeb2025-01-22T07:10:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652025-01-011210.3389/fpubh.2024.13686311368631Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in NigeriaAbdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde0Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde1Adejumoke Idowu Ayede2Amalia Colangelo3Tuan Dung Nguyen4Abdullahi Tunde Aborode5Charles Umeh6Maria Paula Hernandez7Oluwaseyi Iyanuoluwa Ayede8Oluwatobiloba Oluwadunni Ayede9College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaCollege of Medicine, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaMyBelle Digital Maternal and Child Health Organisation, Ibadan, NigeriaCentre for African Newborn Health and Nutrition, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, NigeriaBenjamin S. Carson College of Health and Medical Sciences, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, NigeriaIntroductionNigeria accounts for 20% of all maternal mortality. Recently, more mobile health technology (mHealth) interventions are emerging in sub-Saharan Africa. The potential of mobile applications in maternal care has not been explored in Nigeria. This study describes the process of design, development, and testing of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria.MethodUsing a user-centered design, we conducted semi-structured interviews at each stage of mobile application development with pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Oyo State, Nigeria. The first interview focused on empathy, followed by alpha and beta testing of the mobile application prototype at health facilities.ResultsThe barriers to accessing perinatal care were the distance to the nearest facility (mean = 3.3 km), lack of perinatal education, and cost. The low-fidelity prototype of the mobile application was designed with five features. Mobile applications increased the level of knowledge of preeclampsia by 179%. User feedback from alpha testing informed the development of a high-fidelity prototype for beta testing. Ninety-five percent (95%) of pregnant women surveyed were willing to download the mobile application. The final application developed was uploaded to the Google Play Store (MyBelle pregnancy application).ConclusionmHealth applications have the potential to increase access to prenatal information and services in Nigeria and may reduce maternal and childhood mortality. This study has described the process of development of the first indigenous mobile application specifically for pregnant women in Nigeria using a user-centered design thinking approach.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1368631/fullmHealthmobile applicationpregnancyeducationalmonitoring |
| spellingShingle | Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde Adejumoke Idowu Ayede Amalia Colangelo Tuan Dung Nguyen Abdullahi Tunde Aborode Charles Umeh Maria Paula Hernandez Oluwaseyi Iyanuoluwa Ayede Oluwatobiloba Oluwadunni Ayede Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria Frontiers in Public Health mHealth mobile application pregnancy educational monitoring |
| title | Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria |
| title_full | Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria |
| title_short | Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria |
| title_sort | development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in nigeria |
| topic | mHealth mobile application pregnancy educational monitoring |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1368631/full |
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