Effects of Nutritional Promoting Mobile Application for Pregnant Women: Isan Food on Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Birth Weight
Abstract
The objectives of this two-group post-test quasi-experimental research were to compare gestational weight gain and infant birth weight between the experimental group and the control group, and to evaluate the satisfaction with use of the nutritional promoting mobile application for pregnant women: Isan food using Pender’s Health Promotion Model as the conceptual framework. The samples consisted of 50 pregnant women under the antenatal care of Nakhon Phanom Hospital, and divided into the experimental group and the control group of 25 people each. The research instrument was the nutritional promoting mobile application for pregnant women: Isan food. Data were collected through interviews and a data recording form and a satisfaction evaluation form with the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of .82. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square and t-tests. The results were as follows.
1. The mean gestational weight gain of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p-value < .01).
2. The mean infant birth weight of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p-value < .01).
3. The mean satisfaction score on the use of the nutritional promoting mobile application for pregnant women: Isan food was at the highest level (M = 3.67, SD = 0.54).
According to the research findings, nurses in the antenatal care unit should implement the nutritional promoting mobile application among pregnant women: Isan food to promote appropriate nutritional behavior to allow pregnant women to have normal gestational weight gain and proper infant birth weight.
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