International School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong, China.
J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jun 30;24(6):e28637. doi: 10.2196/28637.
Pregnancy serves as an important chapter in the life of women since more attention needs to be paid to both their physical and psychological health during this period. Adequate prenatal knowledge plays a key role in ensuring the health and safety of not only the pregnant women but also their fetuses and the entire family. With the development of information technology, web-based prenatal education has been brought into focus owing to its accessibility to comprehensive information, with high-quality information available to improve the quality of the overall gestation period, labor process, perinatal outcomes, and fetal outcomes.
This study aims to investigate the present situation of web-based prenatal education and to predict the future research direction of web-based prenatal education in China, thereby providing insights into improving the quality of health care of pregnant women.
A national cross-sectional study was conducted on 590,912 pregnant women in 31 provincial administrations of mainland China between August 2018 and August 2019. These pregnant women were initially recruited from local hospitals across the nation during antenatal and postnatal periods via a web-based education school. Demographic information and course completion status (including the categories and the number of courses they completed) of all the participants were collected.
A total of 590,912 pregnant women participated in the web-based prenatal education in 2018. Among them, 188,508 (31.90%) participants were excluded because they did not complete any course, while 17,807 (3.01%) actively participated in web-based prenatal education and completed more than 100 courses. There were 5 categories of web-based courses; almost half of the pregnant women attended the courses on first and second trimesters (293,262/590,912, 49.63% and 298,168/590,912, 50.46%, respectively). We found that pregnant women were more concerned about the gestational diet, fetal-related knowledge, and other precautions before the labor.
In the era of digitalization where information is rapidly disseminated, web-based prenatal education could become a more convenient, productive, and effective pathway for pregnant women since it could help them obtain adequate and optimal pregnancy-related information and gain more intellectual awareness about their pregnancy or preparation for pregnancy.
妊娠是女性生活中的重要篇章，在此期间，她们的身心健康需要更多关注。充足的产前知识对于确保孕妇及其胎儿和整个家庭的健康和安全起着关键作用。随着信息技术的发展，基于网络的产前教育因其能够获取全面的信息而备受关注，高质量的信息可以提高整个妊娠期间、分娩过程、围产期结局和胎儿结局的质量。
本研究旨在调查基于网络的产前教育的现状，并预测中国基于网络的产前教育的未来研究方向，从而为提高孕妇的保健质量提供参考。
2018 年 8 月至 2019 年 8 月，对中国大陆 31 个省级行政区的 590912 名孕妇进行了一项全国性的横断面研究。这些孕妇最初是通过全国各医院在产前和产后期间通过网络教育学校招募的。收集了所有参与者的人口统计学信息和课程完成情况（包括他们完成的课程类别和数量）。
共有 590912 名孕妇参加了 2018 年的基于网络的产前教育。其中，188508 名（31.90%）参与者因未完成任何课程而被排除在外，而 17807 名（3.01%）积极参与了基于网络的产前教育，并完成了 100 多门课程。网络课程分为 5 类；近一半的孕妇参加了第一和第二孕期的课程（293262/590912，49.63%和 298168/590912，50.46%）。我们发现，孕妇更关注妊娠饮食、胎儿相关知识和分娩前的其他注意事项。
在信息快速传播的数字化时代，基于网络的产前教育可能成为孕妇更方便、更高效、更有效的途径，因为它可以帮助她们获得充足和最佳的妊娠相关信息，并增强对妊娠或妊娠准备的知识意识。
