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Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review
OBJECTIVE: Parents face many challenges during the perinatal period and are at risk for mental health issues, especially during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mobile application-based interventions can help parents to improve their psychosocial well-being in a convenient and accessible...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35985142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103457 |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Parents face many challenges during the perinatal period and are at risk for mental health issues, especially during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mobile application-based interventions can help parents to improve their psychosocial well-being in a convenient and accessible manner. This review aims to examine the effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting self-efficacy, anxiety, and depression (primary outcomes), as well as stress, social support, and parent-child bonding (secondary outcomes) among parents. METHODS: Seven electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest Thesis and Dissertations) were searched from their respective inception dates until August 2021. The Cochrane Risk of Bias-2 tool was used to conduct quality appraisals. Results were narratively synthesized due to the high heterogeneity of intervention and participant types. FINDINGS: A total of 6164 articles were retrieved from the seven electronic databases and citation searching. After excluding duplicate records and irrelevant titles/abstracts, 105 full texts were examined. Full-text screening excluded another 93 articles, leaving 12 included studies in this review. All studies were rated as having some concerns or a high overall risk of bias. Mobile application-based interventions were found to be feasible and promising in improving parents’ overall well-being post-intervention during the perinatal period. Further research would be needed to determine their long-term effects. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Parental well-being was shown to improve using the following intervention components: educational resources on perinatal and infant care, psychotherapy, and support from peers and healthcare professionals. Hence, future interventions could aim to include these components and evaluate all inter-related parenting outcomes (parenting self-efficacy, stress, anxiety, depression, social support, and parent-child bonding). Parents could be provided with experiential learning exposure by using computer animations and virtual reality. Future research could be conducted on more fathers and parents from varied geographical regions. |
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spelling | pubmed-93649442022-08-10 Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review Chua, Joelle Yan Xin Shorey, Shefaly Midwifery Review Article OBJECTIVE: Parents face many challenges during the perinatal period and are at risk for mental health issues, especially during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mobile application-based interventions can help parents to improve their psychosocial well-being in a convenient and accessible manner. This review aims to examine the effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting self-efficacy, anxiety, and depression (primary outcomes), as well as stress, social support, and parent-child bonding (secondary outcomes) among parents. METHODS: Seven electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest Thesis and Dissertations) were searched from their respective inception dates until August 2021. The Cochrane Risk of Bias-2 tool was used to conduct quality appraisals. Results were narratively synthesized due to the high heterogeneity of intervention and participant types. FINDINGS: A total of 6164 articles were retrieved from the seven electronic databases and citation searching. After excluding duplicate records and irrelevant titles/abstracts, 105 full texts were examined. Full-text screening excluded another 93 articles, leaving 12 included studies in this review. All studies were rated as having some concerns or a high overall risk of bias. Mobile application-based interventions were found to be feasible and promising in improving parents’ overall well-being post-intervention during the perinatal period. Further research would be needed to determine their long-term effects. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Parental well-being was shown to improve using the following intervention components: educational resources on perinatal and infant care, psychotherapy, and support from peers and healthcare professionals. Hence, future interventions could aim to include these components and evaluate all inter-related parenting outcomes (parenting self-efficacy, stress, anxiety, depression, social support, and parent-child bonding). Parents could be provided with experiential learning exposure by using computer animations and virtual reality. Future research could be conducted on more fathers and parents from varied geographical regions. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-11 2022-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9364944/ /pubmed/35985142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103457 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Chua, Joelle Yan Xin Shorey, Shefaly Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title | Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title_full | Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title_fullStr | Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title_short | Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review |
title_sort | effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: a systematic review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35985142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103457 |
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