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A Study of Pregnant Women's Information Needs and Usage Behavior

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(Hung, Szu-Jung)

(Chiu, Ming-Hsin)

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Abstract

This study aims to explore information seeking experience of pregnant women and

their usage behavior of mobile health applications. We found that there are many

information channels of pregnant women including interpersonal relationship, paper

materials, digital resources and physical activities, and they have different choices by

different conditions. Pregnant women's information needs include antenatal knowledge,

postnatal knowledge, medical information and life information, and they also need

different kinds of information of different pregnancy stages and parities. They are used

to concerning information about pregnancy knowledge, medical information and life

information. In addition, note taking, counting & measuring and others are the functions

they need. Most participants give positive feedbacks to the applicability and

convenience of pregnancy app, but excess product information or advertisements may

impact the willing to use.

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