Smartphone application improves fertility treatment-related literacy in a large-scale virtual randomized controlled trial in Japan.

ABSTRACT: People of reproductive age have unmet needs related to deficiencies in fertility literacy. Here, we aimed to investigate whether providing fertility-related information via a smartphone application could improve fertility treatment-related literacy in participants. We performed a randomized control-group pretest posttest study and recruited participants between June 18 and 25, 2020. Participants' fertility treatment-related literacy was assessed with a pretest that comprised of 28 questions and participants were allocated with stratified randomization to either intervention group or control group. The intervention comprised a one-week smartphone application-based provision of information on fertility-related information and the control group received general information about women's healt

SUBMITTER: Yokomizo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature