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The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy
Background: Mobile health and e-learning may have a significant impact on training patients, physicians, students and caregivers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of using an educational mobile application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: We us...
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Iran University of Medical Sciences
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28491831 |
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author | Ghazisaeedi, Marjan Safari, Ameneh Sheikhtaheri, Abbas Dalvand, Hamid |
author_facet | Ghazisaeedi, Marjan Safari, Ameneh Sheikhtaheri, Abbas Dalvand, Hamid |
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description | Background: Mobile health and e-learning may have a significant impact on training patients, physicians, students and caregivers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of using an educational mobile application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: We used a previously developed mobile application. The knowledge of 17 caregivers of children with CP (including parents) about the daily care of their children was evaluated through a self-assessment and a test with multiple-choice and true-false questions. Next, the application, which included several educational modules for the daily care of the children with CP, was given to the caregivers to use continually for two months. After this period, the knowledge of the caregivers was evaluated by the same tools. Data analysis was performed by SPSS-16, using paired-sample t-test or Wilcoxon test. Results: The effect of the use of this educational application on the knowledge of caregivers in all childcare domains, except for eating, was reported to be significant (p<0.05). Furthermore, the results of the multiplechoice test revealed that this application increased the knowledge of caregivers in all domains except playing (p<0.05). Conclusion: Training through novel technologies such as Smartphone along with their applications can improve the knowledge of caregivers about the daily care of children with cerebral palsy. |
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spelling | pubmed-54192282017-05-10 The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy Ghazisaeedi, Marjan Safari, Ameneh Sheikhtaheri, Abbas Dalvand, Hamid Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Mobile health and e-learning may have a significant impact on training patients, physicians, students and caregivers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of using an educational mobile application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: We used a previously developed mobile application. The knowledge of 17 caregivers of children with CP (including parents) about the daily care of their children was evaluated through a self-assessment and a test with multiple-choice and true-false questions. Next, the application, which included several educational modules for the daily care of the children with CP, was given to the caregivers to use continually for two months. After this period, the knowledge of the caregivers was evaluated by the same tools. Data analysis was performed by SPSS-16, using paired-sample t-test or Wilcoxon test. Results: The effect of the use of this educational application on the knowledge of caregivers in all childcare domains, except for eating, was reported to be significant (p<0.05). Furthermore, the results of the multiplechoice test revealed that this application increased the knowledge of caregivers in all domains except playing (p<0.05). Conclusion: Training through novel technologies such as Smartphone along with their applications can improve the knowledge of caregivers about the daily care of children with cerebral palsy. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2016-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5419228/ /pubmed/28491831 Text en © 2016 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ghazisaeedi, Marjan Safari, Ameneh Sheikhtaheri, Abbas Dalvand, Hamid The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title | The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title_full | The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title_fullStr | The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title_short | The effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
title_sort | effect of an android-based application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28491831 |
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