Medical apps for reproductive health practices: Uses and implications for supporting sustainable development in Nigeria

Q3 Social Sciences Etude de la Population Africaine Pub Date : 2018-08-27 DOI:10.11564/32-1-1179

N. Okorie, L. Amodu, T. Oyedepo, S. Usaini, Tolulope Kayode-Adedeji

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Background: Empirical investigations on the adoption of selfcare medical apps for reproductive health services among women are not popular in literature and rarely dicussed openly. Objective: This study evaluated the uses of medical apps for reproductive health practices among women in Nigeria. Method: Quantitative questionnaire approach was adopted among randomly selected 340 urban literate women in prime reproductive age (15-35 years) in Ota Community. Results: The study identified three predominant disproportionately used of selfcare healthapps: My Fitness Pal (23.7%), Flo (22.2%) and my Calendar (17.8%). Common selfcare practices are pregnancy test, weight management, but infection test was low (6.5%). Conclusion: The study concludes that the use of selfcare medical apps that could aid early discovery of health challenges are not common in the study location. The authors recommended the use and training on these apps as crucal part of women’s reproductive healthcare services to achieve healthy lives and reduction in maternal and infant morbidities.

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生殖健康实践的医疗应用程序：支持尼日利亚可持续发展的用途和影响

背景：关于女性在生殖健康服务中采用自我护理医疗应用程序的实证调查在文献中并不流行，也很少公开讨论。目的：本研究评估了尼日利亚妇女在生殖健康实践中使用医疗应用程序的情况。方法：在大田社区随机抽取340名育龄妇女（15～35岁）进行定量问卷调查。结果：该研究确定了三种主要的过度使用自我护理健康应用程序：My Fitness Pal（23.7%）、Flo（22.2%）和My Calendar（17.8%）。常见的自我护理做法是验孕、体重管理、，但感染测试较低（6.5%）。结论：研究得出结论，使用有助于早期发现健康挑战的自我护理医疗应用程序在研究地点并不常见。作者建议将这些应用程序的使用和培训作为女性生殖健康服务的关键部分，以实现健康生活和减少母婴疾病。

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Etude de la Population Africaine Social Sciences-Demography

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期刊介绍： African Population Studies is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles, reviews, commentaries, letters and case studies on topics related to the disciplines represented by the Union for African Population Studies Association. These disciplines include demography, population studies, public health, epidemiology, social statistics, population geography, development studies, economics and other social sciences that deal with population and development interrelationships that are unique and relevant to Africa and global audience.