The Effect of Health Education via Mobile Apps in Promoting Asthma Health Related Quality of Life Among Asthmatic School Children in Urban Malaysia

Objectives: The objective of study to assess the effect of health education via mobile applications in promoting health-related quality of life among schoolchildren with asthma in urban Malaysia. Methods: A Quasi-experimental with two-group pre- and post-intervention design was used in this study involving a total of 214 students. The students were randomly assigned into two groups (intervention group and control group) in a pre and post intervention approach. The control group received face to face education and the experimental group had health education via mobile apps.Results: The findings showed that the total score of health related quality of life has improvement in the mean total score of health-related quality of life from pre-intervention (5.31±1.27) to post-intervention (5.66±1.28) for the control group, compared with the experimental group with a mean total score of HRQoL at pre-intervention (5.01±1.36) and post-intervention (5.85±1.29). A comparison between the experimental and control groups using an independent t-test showed statistically significant differences in the mean HRQoL scores of asthma between the experimental and control groups. The effect of health education via mobile applications showed statistically significant improvement pre and post intervention in HRQoL score [F (1,288) = 57.46, p = Conclusion: The use of mobile technology in health education improved HRQoL as compared of traditional method of face-to-face lecture or handbooks among school children with asthma. Thus, educational module using mobile apps improves HRQoL. Trial registration: This study was registered under the Medical Research Committee, University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia under Trial MRECID. NO: 2016112-4501, Also, this study is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) under Trial ID: ACTRN12614300582550