Intervention
MIDDLE EAR INFECTION
Computer-generated educational intervention based on WhatsApp messenger was carried out. Based on the needs assessment in pilot study [The experimental group participated in 4 training sessions of 60 min at an interval of 1 week for 1 month (one session per week). In WhatsApp messenger, a group called “Aware Mothers- Healthy Children” was formed for the experimental group. The educational content included voiced PowerPoint, short educational messages, educational photos with short explanations, and short educational videos about middle ear infection that were sent to the mothers of the experimental group. After each training session, group discussion and question and answer were conducted to better understanding of the training contents (Details are shown in Table Detailed description of educational sessions for mothers of the experimental group regarding middle ear infection in infantsFinally, 3 months after the intervention, the post-test was administrated and the data was collected from both groups and was analyzed. With considering that in the process of creating health behaviors in order to change mothers’ attitude and create stability and sustainability in health behaviors, we use the duration of 3 months for participant follow up post-test.