Authors: Olga Joos, Romesh Silva, Agbessi Amouzou, Lawrence H. Moulton, Jamie Perin, Jennifer Bryce, and Luke C. Mullany
As community health workers gain more and more responsibility amidst shortages of skilled health workers, mobile technology for health (mHealth) is becoming more popular for health care delivery around the globe. In order to better understand the role mHealth applications have among CHWs, researchers tested whether short message services (SMS) could improve the reporting of pregnancies and pregnancy outcomes among CHWs. Findings from a cluster-randomized intervention show that groups that received motivational SMS, with or without data quality SMS, improved documentation of pregnancies.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, mHealth and Technology
Resource Type: Journal articles, Research
Year: 2016
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Malawi
Publisher May Restrict Access: No