title: [Effects of a Mobile Web-based Pregnancy Health Care Educational Program for Mothers at an Advanced Maternal Age].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to develop a mobile web-based pregnancy health care educational program for mothers who were at an advanced maternal age (AMA) and to verify the effects of the program on pregnancy health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  This program was developed using a web-based teaching-learning system design model and composed of 10 subject areas. This research was a quasi-experimental study using a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest time serial design and data were collected from April 2 to May 3, 2014. To verify the effects of the program, it was used for 2 weeks with 30 AMA mothers (experimental group). For the control group, a classroom education booklet for pregnant women used with 31 AMA mothers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The experimental group having participated in program had statistically significantly higher scores for knowledge (t=3.76, p<.001), self-efficacy (t=8.54, p<.001), and practice behavior (t=4.88, p<.001) of pregnancy health care, compared to the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the program indicate that a Mobile web-based pregnancy health care educational program is effective in meeting the needs of AMA mothers and can be used as the prenatal educational program for AMA mothers and is appropriate as an educational media for theses mothers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Suwon Women's University, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Hee Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Korea. kimio@syu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Il Ok
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D040421:Cell Phone; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008423:Maternal Age; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Health education; Internet; Maternal age; Pregnant women; Prenatal care