Abstract

The study carried out investigation into the awareness and utilization of m-Health pregnancy apps among women of reproductive age in Anambra State. It was guided by four research questions and anchored on Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Health Belief Model (HBM). It adopted a survey research method and had 380 respondents as the selected sample size. The researchers discovered that significant number of women in Anambra State, who are of reproductive age are exposed to m-Health pregnancy apps; it also found out that there is low level of awareness of m-Health pregnancy apps among women of reproductive age in Anambra State; in addition, the study revealed that a considerable number of women of reproductive age in Anambra State do not really utilize m-Health pregnancy apps; Finally, the study discovered that that the few women in Anambra State (68.8%) who make use of the m-Health pregnancy app use it mainly to monitor the development of their baby, another percentage of the women (56.8%) use it for daily guide on the needed essentials during pregnancy, few of them make use of the app to monitor their ovulation during pregnancy; a handful of them (21.6%) use the app to name their babies; and a few of them (3.5%) make use of the app to track labour period, as well as keep track of contractions during pregnancy.