Design and Evaluation of Educational Software of Importance Health Pests based on Mobile to Increase Knowledge of Medical Sciences Students

The need to rapidly utilize and transfer specialized knowledge among individuals at different levels of society has led to the mobile applications development on different goals from gaming and entertainment to educational and scientific software that can be installed and run on mobile. Hence, this study was aimd to design and evalute mobile based on educational software as health pests "identification, prevention and control" to increse the knowledge of students as community Health Trustees in future. The present srudy was a descriptive cross-sectional research which was carried out in three stages of software need assessment, software design and development, and evaluation. The software was provoded to undergraduate students of Biology and vector Control at School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2019 for one month. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 20 questions in two parts: educational and graphic abilities. In this study, identification, prevention and control of 33 species of health pests were provided. The evaluation results of this software among 33 students in 3, 5 and 7 semesters showed that 81.52% and 81.48% of them were satisfied with graphic and educational abilities, respectively. More than 60% of students prefered the software to find out information to book. Due to the participants’ high satisfaction, its use is recommended for other students of medical sciences universities, health center experts and public.