The effect of Augmented-Reality media-based health education on healthy lifestyle knowledge, attitude, and healthy lifestyle behaviors among pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia

Pregnancy is a critical period. Pregnant women need to perform healthy lifestyle behavior in order to ensure good fetal development. During COVID-19 pandemic, Augmented-Reality (AR) media may be used in pregnant women health education. However, there is a lack of research that investigated the effec...

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Published in:Digital health 2023-01, Vol.9, p.20552076231167255
Main Authors: Mulyani, Erry Y, Jus’at, Idrus, Sumaedi, Sik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
COVID-19
Health behavior
Health education
Lifestyles
Original Research
Pandemics
Pregnancy
Womens health
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Summary:Pregnancy is a critical period. Pregnant women need to perform healthy lifestyle behavior in order to ensure good fetal development. During COVID-19 pandemic, Augmented-Reality (AR) media may be used in pregnant women health education. However, there is a lack of research that investigated the effect of AR media use in pregnant women health education. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate the impact of AR media use on healthy lifestyle knowledge, attitude, and behaviors among pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic. This cohort-longitudinal study involved 86 pregnant women aged 18–45 years. The subjects who participated in this research received health education interventions using AR media for 5 months. The data collection was performed at the pre–post-intervention through a survey with questionnaire. Changes in subjects' healthy lifestyle knowledge, attitude, and behaviors were analyzed by using t-test. The research results show that the AR media use in health education significantly improved the subjects' scores for healthy lifestyle knowledge (5.0 ± 10.9; p 
ISSN:2055-2076
2055-2076
DOI:10.1177/20552076231167255