The effect of the Internet on decision-making during pregnancy: a systematic review
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REVIEW ARTICLE
The effect of the Internet on decision-making during pregnancy: a systematic review Ayşe Taştekin Ouyaba 1
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Selma İnfal Kesim 2
Received: 1 November 2019 / Accepted: 2 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The purpose of this review is to explain how the Internet affects decision-making in pregnancy. A systematic review was carried out in accordance with the guidelines developed by the National Institute of Health Research at York University. The PubMed, EBSCOhost, Ulakbim Medical Database, Turkish Medline, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were scanned. Three keywords in the titles, abstracts, and keywords of the articles were searched for in the Medical Subject Headings: “Pregnancy,” “Decision-making,” and “Internet.” A total of 1143 articles were found in the first screening. Duplicate articles were removed. The remaining articles were reviewed according to the inclusion criteria. Only articles about healthy pregnant women were accessed, and only full-text research articles published in English were used. Seventeen articles met the inclusion criteria. The sample size varied between 9 and 7092. Most studies reported that pregnant women use the Internet as a source of information about pregnancy. Pregnancy, development of the fetus, labor, neonatal health, and nutrition were the subjects most researched. It was found that women with a higher education, who were young, nulliparous, and primigravid, looked for more information on the Internet. The Internet affects decisions about the type of delivery, drug use in pregnancy, and physical activity. Using the Internet had a positive effect on the decision-making processes of pregnant women, increased their awareness, and had a visible effect on this process. Keywords Decision-making . Internet . Information . Pregnancy . Systematic review
Introduction Significance • What is already known about the subject? Women are in need of information during pregnancy and use the Internet frequently as a source of information. Although the Internet is an important source of information for pregnant women, it is unclear how the Internet affects pregnant women's decision-making process. • What this study adds? In this review, we explained how the Internet influenced decision-making in pregnancy. For this purpose, we looked for answers to the following three questions: (i) What are the characteristics of pregnant women using the Internet and their reasons for using the Internet? (ii) What are Internet affected decisions? (iii) What perceptions do women have about the reliability and usefulness of the Internet? * Ayşe Taştekin Ouyaba [email protected] 1
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
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Aksehir Kadir Yallagöz School of Health, Department of Nursing, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
The Internet is one of the main sources used for researching health-related information. It is used more and more each day in the USA and ac
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