Measurement and Development Program of Digital Environmental Literacy Affecting Behavior of Preventing Health Impacts in women of reproductive age : Mixed-Methods

Abstract

This study aims to 1) the problem situation of digital environmental health in reproductive women through a systematic review, and 2) to design and develop the effectiveness of tools and a digital environmental health program for women of reproductive age. This study used a systematic review using the PICO technique to analyze and synthesize research on keywords, a total of 31,982 articles were searched and met the inclusion criteria, and 9 studies were synthesized. The experimental group and the control group were equal to 26 people. Data were collected using the Digital Environmental Health Awareness Scale of Reproductive Women and the Behavior Assessment for women of reproductive age developed by the researcher based on relevant concepts and theories. The results showed that 1) an effective development program should be an online activity along with learning materials to enhance skills in 5 areas, namely (1) Digital environmental health literacy (2) Digital environmental health information skills (3) Social support and networking skills (4) Behavior and feedback improvement and (5) Evaluation and improvement skills 2) Digital environmental health literacy was measured by four components: (1) access to environmental health information (2) understand environmental health information, (3) appraise environmental health information, and (4) apply environmental health information. The results showed that reproductive women who participated in the program had significantly higher digital environmental health literacy and developed competencies at the statistically significant level of .05.