doi: 10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.722
Comparison on the Use of Smartphone Application between International and Korean Pregnant Women
Hyeon Jihye
,
Syed Nitas Iftekhar
Abstract
Antenatal parent education(APE) is the key to solve numerous contemporary issues using education such as lessening brain development gap and reducing maternal and infantile mortality. Many researchers have examined existing APE on and off-line which have shown merits as well as limitations. Many of them urged research on alternatives to compensate the limitations, and the potential of education using ICTs such as Smartphone has been highlighted more recently. This study aims to analyze the current APE using Smartphone application comparing international users and Korean users with content analysis to conceptualize Smartphone efficiency for APE. The finding of content analysis was that parents need informing and supporting functions the most. Monitoring and shaping functions were regarded useful among users in terms of personalized APE. This result was accorded to both international and Korean users.
Keywords
- Parent education
- antenatal parent education
- Smartphone application
- South Korea
How to Cite
Hyeon Jihye and Syed Nitas Iftekhar, "Comparison on the Use of Smartphone Application between International and Korean Pregnant Women," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 404-409, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.722
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Copyright © 2016 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).