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Mobile applications during pregnancy can help pregnant women improve health care for themselves and their infants. In this regard, using valid and reliable evaluation tools is a good solution. Mobile application rating scale (MARS) is one of the valid tools in English to measure the quality of these programs, whose Persian version was validated in the field of pregnancy in this study.

The cross-sectional study, the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) was translated into Persian and back-translated into English and compared with the original format. In the next step, the Persian version of MARS was used to evaluate 44 Persian mobile applications in the field of pregnancy. Face validity, content validity (CVR, CVI) and criterion validity (convergent and divergent) were calculated by Cronbach's alpha method and evaluators' agreement. Eleven specialists in the field of medical informatics and health information management participated in the content validity stage and two midwifery experts participated in the evaluation stage of midwifery applications. Pearson and intra-class correlation coefficient and student t-test were used in SPSS software (version 25).

In the content validity assessment stage, all 23 items were confirmed, and some edits needed to maintain the clarity and simplicity of the items was done. Convergent and divergent validity was confirmed. There was correlation coefficient between the score of the subscales (engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information) with the total score of MARS from 0.85 to 0.92 for the first evaluator and from 0.77 to 0.92 for the second evaluator. There was a positive and significant relationship between the evaluators' opinion in ranking the quality of all subscales of 44 pregnancy apps. Cronbach's alpha for the whole scale was calculated to be 0.93 and 0.91 in two assessments.

According to the indicators calculated in this study, Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is a valid and reliable tool in the field of pregnancy. The results of this study can be used by specialists, designers and evaluators of mobile applications in the field of pregnancy and pregnant women are its main beneficiaries.

Mobile applications have been proposed as a helpful tool to provide health-related information to people, and this is more important in pregnancy-related mobile applications. This review study aimed to investigate the features of Persian and English mobile apps for self-care in pregnancy.This descriptive cross-sectional study was done on all Persian and English mobile applications related to pregnancy in 2022. A search was conducted on Iranian digital app market (Bazaar) and "Google Play", using the following keywords: "pregnancy", "pregnant women", "obstetrics", and their Persian translations. For each app, the extracted information included name, user satisfaction rate, and the features and provided information by mobile app.The total number of retrieved applications was 416 apps. After removing the duplicates and applying the inclusion criteria, 63 applications were selected for features extraction. Reviewing the features and information provided by the applications showed that the most frequent categories of information included the following items: childbirth and pregnancy (including timing contractions, fetal movement, symptoms of pregnancy and predicting delivery time), restrictions and limitations (including behavioral limits, sexual restrictions, smoking and alcohol, cosmetics and pregnancy and drug use during pregnancy), and monitoring and control tools (BMI Calculator, managing weight gain during pregnancy, control of blood pressure).Paying attention to pregnant women and meeting their information needs could lead to healthier generation. A wide range of mobile applications related to pregnancy are available with many capabilities. Considering pregnant women’s need for information and using these apps in self-care, it seems essential to develop and design a series of high-quality apps matching pregnant women's needs.

The increase in stress and anxiety among students has a negative effect on their physical and mental health and can prevent their efficient academic performance. Self-care applications can help control and reduce students' anxiety and depression. The aim of this study was to determine the necessary requirements related to the design and development of a mobile-based self-care application to control and reduce stress and anxiety in students.

This research is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2022. To conduct this study, 38 students of Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences (Razavi Khorasan province, Mashhad city) were included in the study based on the inclusion criteria and answered the questions of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and SPSS version 25.

Out of 91 informational-educational needs and capabilities, 67 items with a mean score of ≥3.75 were considered essential for application design. Information-educational needs and capabilities were categorized into eight axes: user profile, clinical records, lifestyle, disease management and control, sedation instructions, warnings and reminders, reporting and application capabilities.

Identifying and determining the requirements related to the design of an application based on a mobile phone is one of the basic principles of developing an application that by involving users and obtaining their opinions can have an important role in their continue use of these applications. Therefore, application designers can design and develop an organized mobile-based self-care application to control and manage students' stress and anxiety by using the information-educational needs and capabilities presented in the present study.

Smartphone-based medical applications are tools for accessing the latest valid scientific evidence. These programs can improve decision-making and communication between medical staff and reduce medical errors. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge and use of smartphone applications among medical students of Iran University of Medical Sciences.

This study was an applied study that was done by a descriptive-survey method. 81 final-year medical students of Iran University of Medical Sciences were selected by a census in the period 2017-2018. To collect the data, a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of three parts with a Likert scale was used, and its validity and reliability were measured and analyzed using SPSS software version 21.

More than 40% of the students used medical applications at different times of the week. Lack of Internet access at university and at work was the biggest barrier to accessing medical applications on a mobile phone. Most of the support needed to use these programs was to use the available online guides. UpToDate and MedScape medical programs were also the most used ones by the respondents.

The present study shows that medical students’ level of knowledge and use of smartphone-based medical applications, or rather, their level of knowledge and understanding of the applications is on the increase based on their information or experience. Therefore, necessary measures should be taken to facilitate and create Internet access infrastructure in the workplace and universities.

Self-care in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy is an important factor in controlling and reducing the side effects of chemotherapy which leads to a greater adherence to chemotherapy and improved quality of life. Given the role of smartphones in individuals' lives and their apparent capacities for self-care, the aim of this study was to present a mobile-based self-care application for patients with breast canceundergoing chemotherapy.

This applied developmental research was conducted in two stages. At first, needs assessment was performed to identify the needs of oncology and general surgery specialists and patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Then, the prototype of the application was designed under the Android platform. Finally, to evaluate the usability and satisfaction of users, the standard Quiz questionnaire version 5.5 was completed by 30 patients for one week. The data were analyzed by SPSS software version 21 using descriptive statistics.

According to the findings 32 elements (among 36) of the needs assessment questionnaire were considered as necessary by the participants. General features of the program included: patient profiles, side effects management, life style and system capabilities. The usability assessment of the application showed that the users rated the application as good with a mean score of 7.9 (out of nine points).

Mobile-based care applications can be used to help patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy in managing side effects and obtaining self-care skills.

Infertility is a chronic disease with a long-term treatment and self-care leads to an increase in the level of knowledge and awareness about the disease. Moreover, smartphones provide access to information at any time and place; therefore, by using the mobile-based assisted reproductive technology, a self-care application program can be a good choice to help people gain awareness and improve the treatment. 

Library resources and related and similar applications were studied. Then, data items and the sections required for applied program were identified. To study their importance, a survey was performed on the working members of Iran Helal Infertility Specialty Center. Out of the 35 members of the research community, 20 were randomly selected. The survey questionnaire was made with 32 questions in three sections. In this survey, the data model framework was confirmed; however, the basis of the tools framework didn't need the confirmation of validity and reliability since the data model was designed based on the reference. With summarization of responses, data items and sections specified in designing the program were applied.

The mean of the scores showed that the respondents had identified most of the items as essential. This survey had three main axes. The mean scores of axes of patient information, patient education, and disease management tools are 4.205, 4.402 and 4.275, respectively. The mean scores above 4 show that their effectiveness is very high.

Considering the results, the designed application program can be helpful for patients.

Learning of reading and writing are basic skills, which unfortunately some children have problem in this process. Review of related literature supports this idea that many children and adolescents with Down syndrome, who have learned reading materials from an early age, could improve their spoken language and memory skills. Patients with more efforts and simplified tasks could learn to read in the same way as typically developing children. They build on their good visual memory skills but find it more difficult to use phonics. Reading skills in the patients, is one of the most basic tools for communication and social function. The present research addressed the developing an applied reading program and evaluation of its effectiveness on understanding written material on daily life situations in patients. 

The research was a quasi–experimental one with pretest–posttest design for two experimental and control groups. The research sample comprised 30 children and adolescents with Down syndrome who were selected through availability sampling among students of two special schools in Hamedan city (Hamedan province, West of Iran). Subjects were randomly assigned into two experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. The research instruments included: A) the Wechsler intelligence scale for children– revised version (WISC–R), which this test has five primary index scores, the verbal comprehension index (VCI), visual spatial index (VSI), fluid reasoning index (FRI), working memory index (WMI) and processing speed index (PSI). Two subtests had to be administered to obtain each of the primary index scores; thus, 10 subtests were primary subtests. The full scale IQ was derived from 7 of 10 primary subtests: both verbal comprehension subtests, one visual spatial subtest, two fluid reasoning subtests, one working memory subtest, and one processing speed subtest. B) The Persian version of test of language development–primary 3 (TOLD–P3), which this test consists of 5 core subtests (picture vocabulary, oral vocabulary, grammatical understanding, sentence imitation and grammatical completion) which then comprise the overall composite score (language quotient). Three supplemental subtests (word discrimination, phonemic analysis, and word articulation) were provided for an expanded clinical analysis of “speech” systems, and C) two researcher–made written tasks as the pretest and post–test, they used to measure the written texts comprehension in the experimental and control groups. The intervention program was conducted in 12 sessions. Each session was 30 minutes. Some tasks were taken to parents as home tasks. This program was included basic reading skill tasks (phonological awareness, visual decoding tasks and vocabulary development). 

Results of covariance analysis showed that Applied Reading Program had a significant effect on comprehension of written material in students with Down Syndrome (p<0.001).

Based on the results of this study, teachers and pediatricians of children with Down syndrome are recommended to use a reading program that improves understanding of the written material and reading performance in these children. The intervention evaluated here was novel in its integrated approach to reading and language instruction for children with Down syndrome and is educationally realistic.

Mobile Health refers to activities in the field of medicine and general health through using smart devices for gathering clinical healthcare data, presenting information about physicians, researchers and patients, supervising vital signs, and distant visits. Since using this accessible and inexpensive tool for healthcare education has not been developed yet in our country, this study was designed with the aim of identifying effective factors on the adoption of mobile health technology. In this survey research, the study population was pregnant women referred to Hospitals in Karaj who completed the designed questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive referential statistical methods (the single-variable t- test) and Friedman Test was used to prioritize the research variables. According to the research findings, ffacilitating conditions had the most effect on the adoption of mobile health technology followed by the variables of social influence, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, waiting time, attitude, information quality, technology anxiety, data privacy and security, trust, and hedonic motivation. Facilitating conditions of using health mobile technology should be improved through increasing necessary financial, organizational and technical infrastructures of using health technology services and consequently increasing the acceptance of using this type of services. Also, with creating changes in thoughts, feelings, attitudes, the acceptance of this new technology should be facilitated.

  Diabetic foot ulcer is one of the most painful complications of Diabetes and affects various aspects of a person's life. Therefore, involvement of the patient in self-care can minimize its complications. The purpose of this study was to identify the effective factors in the Diabetic foot self-management for designing a managed-care based app for people with Diabetes who have risk factors for foot ulcers or wound infections. In this cross-sectional study all physicians and nurses employed at ‘Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research Center’ of Tehran University of Medical Sciences who had a history of working with Diabetic patients at various levels of Diabetes and foot ulcers participated. The data collection tool was a questionnaire based on the likert scale that made by researchers, which included demographic and clinical information, education and lifestyle management and capabilities of application for self-management in Diabetic foot patients. Finally, descriptive statistics used to analyze the results in SPSS. After reviewing the rate of experts’ agreement with the components of the survey, all the cases over 51% approval rate were considered as required components. According to the opinion of the physicians respectively capabilities of application, education and lifestyle management and patient information and according to the opinion of the nurses’ education and lifestyle management, patient information and capabilities of application were important respectively. Beside proper treatment of the disease, self-management strategies can be effective and useful. Effectiveness of the patients’ self-care by acquiring the necessary skills and involvement in self-care might be achievable.

Production of mobile health apps and their use has grown increasingly in recent years which indicate the profound influence of these apps on health care processes and health of the community. Mobile health apps must be made on the basis of reliable scientific resources so that users can use them with confidence. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the reliability of resources used in the creation of the content of the top Persian mobile health applications.
In this descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in March 2015, 200 of the top mobile health applications were installed, and their references and some of their other features were studied. The data were collected using a checklist, entered into an Excel spreadsheet, and were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Review of the references used in the apps studied showed that 20% of them had no list of references, and only 5.10% (21 cases) used content from reliable sources.
The results of this study are applicable to taking control of the quality of mobile health apps and helping users have access to high-quality and reliable apps by regulatory agencies.