| dc.description.abstract | Maternal physical and mental health is
standout amongst the most essential factors of a woman’s
life. Physically or Mentally unstable mothers cannot
function properly. Therefore, innovative solutions to selfmanagement of maternal health issues are particularly
valuable. This paper presents the design approaches of an
ongoing project of developing an Intelligent Web
Application for Maternal Health Management. The designs
were based on creating an efficient and reliable web app
for good maternal physical & mental health care, healthy
baby birth, baby care and mother care. This web
application is consist with the Edinburgh postnatal
depression scale to measure the stress , stress meter and
technique to connect the users with midwifes anddoctors.
Edingburgh postnatal depression scale (EDPS) is developed
as an Expert system and the web application consists with
chatbot feature which helps to solve users’ problems
regarding maternity. This system is developed specially for
Sri Lankan pregnant mothers; therefore, language of this
application is Sinhala. Automated EPDS concept is not still
been utilized by many maternal application developers
when designing maternity related web applications.
Additional to these two major features this application is
consist with a database which keeps patients records and
facility for doctors to provide music therapy through this
app if needed. The final objective of this project will be
developing an intelligent web application which provide
guidelines for maternal period and stress managing
criteria using expert system technology. | |
