Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: a systematic review

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Authors

Joelle Chua¹ , Shefaly Shorey¹

1. Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singap

Conference / event

26th East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS2023), March 2023 (Tokyo, Japan)

Poster summary

A quantitative systematic review was conducted to examine the effect of mobile application-based perinatal interventions among parents in improving parenting self-efficacy, anxiety, and depression (primary outcomes), and stress, social support, and parent-child bonding (secondary outcomes). Mobile application-based interventions were found to be feasible and promising in improving parents’ overall well-being during the perinatal period. The provision of these following components in mobile application-based interventions were shown to be helpful for parents: 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 assess inter-related parenting outcomes (parenting self-efficacy, stress, anxiety, depression, social support, and parent-child bonding) to understand parents’ well-being holistically.

Keywords

Perinatal, Parent, Parenting, Mobile application, Systematic review

Research areas

Education, Medicine, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

References

1. Chua, J. Y. X., & Shorey, S. (2023). Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review. (Ed.),^(Eds.). 26th East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS2023), The University of Tokyo, Japan
2. Chua, J. Y. X., & Shorey, S. (2022). Effectiveness of mobile application-based perinatal interventions in improving parenting outcomes: A systematic review. Midwifery, 114, 103457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103457

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2023 Chua et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.