EDU_VACCINE app: Mobile application for public health students and health educators

One of the valuable tools in virtual education is mobile phone-based educational applications. The present study aims to design and evaluate the vaccination training program through a mobile phone application for the internship of public health students in 2022.

The current developmental-applied study was carried out among 30 female undergraduate public health students using census sampling method. The information needs and technical capabilities of the program were first determined. A skill-testing station test was taken, and the scores were recorded. The designed application was given to the students, and they were given one month to use it. After that, the same stationary test was taken again, and the scores were compared with those of the first test. Then, the level of user satisfaction with the vaccination training program was collected and analyzed using the fifth version of the user interaction satisfaction (QUIS) questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software version 25 and the Wilcoxon test with a significance level of 0.05.

The students' average performance scores in vaccination skills increased from 17.56 ± 6.24 to 60.4 ± 2.15 after using the EDU_VACCINE application (p < 0.05). The average overall satisfaction score of the application was 117.86 ± 10.76 (p < 0.05).

According to the results, the average scores related to the vaccination performance of the students as well as the satisfaction of the EDU_VACCINE application are at a high level. Respectively, 'ease of working with the application' and its being 'offline' garnered the highest level of satisfaction, and these factors can make education through the application more popular among different educational fields.