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Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore expecting parents’ perceptions of the Childbirth Journey as an intervention that includes medical information for parental support, constructed as a serious game. METHODS: In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were held with expecting p...

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Autores principales: Bäckström, Caroline, Rolfson, Tanja, Engström, Henrik, Knez, Rajna, Larsson, Margaretha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9118415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35603330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076221097776
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author Bäckström, Caroline
Rolfson, Tanja
Engström, Henrik
Knez, Rajna
Larsson, Margaretha
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Engström, Henrik
Knez, Rajna
Larsson, Margaretha
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description OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore expecting parents’ perceptions of the Childbirth Journey as an intervention that includes medical information for parental support, constructed as a serious game. METHODS: In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were held with expecting parents in Sweden who were able to talk about specific parts of the Childbirth Journey they appreciated or found difficult to understand. A phenomenographic methodology was employed for data analysis. RESULTS: Participants perceived the Childbirth Journey to be easily accessible and customized with reliable information. The design and features of the intervention were perceived by the expecting parents to enhance the intervention’s usability, appeal, and trustworthiness. When parental couples used the Childbirth Journey together, it gave them an opportunity to discuss and better understand each other’s situation. The participants proposed several changes to the existing version of the game, mostly related to extending practical information and illustrated scenarios but also to the further development of the game’s design and animations. The participants found the Knowledge portal to be the most appealing part of the Childbirth Journey. CONCLUSIONS: The Childbirth Journey intervention was concluded to be a valuable digital complement to in-person professional support, especially given the current COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in place in Sweden, which do not allow antenatal visits by partners. However, in its current form, the Childbirth Journey has some deficiencies and would therefore benefit from further development and exploration.
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spelling pubmed-91184152022-05-20 Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study Bäckström, Caroline Rolfson, Tanja Engström, Henrik Knez, Rajna Larsson, Margaretha Digit Health Original Research OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore expecting parents’ perceptions of the Childbirth Journey as an intervention that includes medical information for parental support, constructed as a serious game. METHODS: In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were held with expecting parents in Sweden who were able to talk about specific parts of the Childbirth Journey they appreciated or found difficult to understand. A phenomenographic methodology was employed for data analysis. RESULTS: Participants perceived the Childbirth Journey to be easily accessible and customized with reliable information. The design and features of the intervention were perceived by the expecting parents to enhance the intervention’s usability, appeal, and trustworthiness. When parental couples used the Childbirth Journey together, it gave them an opportunity to discuss and better understand each other’s situation. The participants proposed several changes to the existing version of the game, mostly related to extending practical information and illustrated scenarios but also to the further development of the game’s design and animations. The participants found the Knowledge portal to be the most appealing part of the Childbirth Journey. CONCLUSIONS: The Childbirth Journey intervention was concluded to be a valuable digital complement to in-person professional support, especially given the current COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in place in Sweden, which do not allow antenatal visits by partners. However, in its current form, the Childbirth Journey has some deficiencies and would therefore benefit from further development and exploration. SAGE Publications 2022-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9118415/ /pubmed/35603330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076221097776 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Rolfson, Tanja
Engström, Henrik
Knez, Rajna
Larsson, Margaretha
Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title_full Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title_fullStr Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title_full_unstemmed Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title_short Expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
title_sort expecting parents’ perceptions of the digital parental support “childbirth journey” constructed as a serious game—an intervention study
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9118415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35603330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076221097776
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