Comparing the effects of self- care education by lecture and smartphone application on self-efficacy of patients with thalassemia

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Research

Habibolah Rezaei¹  Narges Roustaei²  Nazafarin Hosseini³  Peyman Etemadfar⁴  Fahimeh Kharaman-nia⁵ 

[1] Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran;Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran;Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, 759195436, Yasuj, Iran;Department of Pediatrics, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran;Student Research Committee, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran;

关键词: Thalassemia;    Self-efficacy;    Self-care;    Education;    Smartphone application;    Lecture;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12911-023-02097-4

 received in 2022-07-01, accepted in 2023-01-02,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPatients with the thalassemia have a basic requirement for self-efficacy regarding their treatment procedure. The present study aimed to compare the effect of self-care education via a smartphone application and lectures on the self-efficacy of patients with thalassemia.MethodsIn the present quasi-experimental study, 99 patients with thalassemia at Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Yasuj, Iran, in 2019 who were eligible to enter the study, were selected. The block randomization was done with the block sizes of 3, 6, and 9, and participants were randomly assigned to 3 groups: smartphone application (A), lecture intervention (B), and control (c). Smartphone application and lecture interventions were performed for intervention groups A and B, respectively, during 8 weeks. Scherer's self-efficacy measure was used to collect the data at baseline and eight weeks after the intervention. Data were analyzed by SPSS-version 25 software using Paired t-test, Wilcoxon and Kruskal–Wallis tests.ResultsNinety-nine patients with thalassemia with a mean (SD) age of 25 (6) and 58 females (58.59%) participated in the present study. The results indicated a significant difference in self-efficacy among 3 groups after intervention (P = 0.001). However, self-care education with smartphone application revealed a significant increase in the mean (SD) of self-efficacy of the patients with thalassemia 68.36(8.45) compared to the lecture method 62.55 (7.3) (P = 0.003) and control 62.09 (6.7) (P = 0.001). There were no significant differences among the self-efficacy scores of the patients in lecture intervention and control groups.ConclusionsThe results revealed that smartphone application was a suitable educational software to promote self-efficacy in patients with thalassemia. It is recommended to use smartphone application methods to improve the self-efficacy levels of patients with thalassemia.

【 授权许可】

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