Authors: Salahuddin Ahmed, Harish Nair, Steve Cunningham, Ahad Mahmud Khan, Md Shafiqul Islam, ASMD Ashraful Islam, Nabidul Haque Chowdhury, Ian Mitra McLane, Leah Githinji, Mulindwa Makasa Justin, Ismat Jahan, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Rezwana Tabassum, Dipak Kumar Mitra, Mohammod Shahidullah, Abdullah H. Baqui & Eric D. McCollum
This study in rural Bangladesh tested whether trained community health workers could successfully record children’s breathing sounds using a digital stethoscope. After a short training, nine workers collected lung sound recordings from nearly 1,000 young children at local clinics. Most of the recordings were clear and usable, and they were usually completed within a few minutes. The findings show that community health workers can reliably collect good-quality lung sound data, suggesting they could help improve early detection of breathing problems in young children in low-resource settings.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Child health, Respiratory Illness, mHealth and Technology
Resource Type: Qualitative
Year: 2026
Region: Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Publisher May Restrict Access: No