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Smartphone Apps for Pregnant Women: The Gap Between the Quality of Current Apps and Patients' Needs
Lina Mao1, Jiani Wang1, Huanxia Liu2
1School of Nursing, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
To explore the gap between women's needs for pregnancy related apps and to evaluate the quality of the top 10 downloaded pregnancy related apps, we designed a cross-sectional study to survey 153 pregnant women. This study showed pregnant women had high requirement against the quality of knowledge content, functions, interface and basic characteristics of apps. The top 10 popular apps showed a range of drawbacks and were far from satisfying the needs of pregnant women.
To explore the gap between women's needs for pregnancy related apps and to evaluate the quality of the top 10 downloaded pregnancy related apps, we designed a cross-sectional study to survey 153 pregnant women. This study showed pregnant women had high requirement against the quality of knowledge content, functions, interface and basic characteristics of apps. The top 10 popular apps showed a range of drawbacks and were far from satisfying the needs of pregnant women.
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