Do the various pregnancy apps from the App Store or Apple Store have research-based health information and can they be considered reliable educational tools for pregnant women? Has anyone actually reviewed these apps for reliability?
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While I have not reviewed them, Text4baby was a collaborative effort by several government agencies and industry partners.It seems to be supported on our Philadelphia Health Department's website. Research and evaluation of it is listed here https://www.text4baby.org/index.php/about/data-and-evaluation.
Surprisingly, as a direct provider of prenatal care in a public health community center, no one has trained me or my colleagues at the point-of-care how to get our pregnant patients to benefit from it. I only know because of my academic appointment in public health.
Thanks for your response. I had read the Text4baby paper but it didn't really identify if the information provided was actually evidence based, mediated by health professionals and how pregnant women actually benefited.
There are so many people on the internet so willing to give advice to pregnant women, when this is precisely the time that women need to be extremely discerning in accepting the information they obtain.