TY - JOUR
T1 - Community Health Worker-Based Mobile Health (mHealth) Approaches for Improving Management and Caregiver Knowledge of Common Childhood Infections
T2 - A Systematic Review
AU - Mahmood, Hana
AU - Mckinstry, Brian
AU - Luz, Saturnino
AU - Fairhurst, Karen
AU - Nasim, Sumaira
AU - Hazir, Tabish
AU - Collaboration, Respire
N1 - Funding Information:
Coupling of mobile technology with CHWs has the potential to benefit communities in improving management of illnesses in children under-five. High quality evidence of impact of such interventions on behaviour is relatively sparse and further studies should be conducted using theoretically informed frameworks/models of behaviour change. Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Marshall Dozier, Academic Librarian at the University of Edinburgh, for her help in developing the search strategy and guiding in data extraction. Funding: HM is supported by PhD studentships from the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE). RESPIRE is funded by the National Institute of Health Research using Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.Neither the funder nor the sponsor (University of Edinburgh) contributed to protocol development. Authorship contributions conceived the idea for this work which was developed with the support of BM, SL, KF and TH. HM and SN did the review. HM wrote the first draft, and all authors contributed to the manuscript. The views expressed in the submitted article are those of?the?authors’?own?and?not?an?official?position?of?the?institution?or?funder. All data created during this research are openly available from DataShare (http://hdl.handle.net/10283/3732). Competing interests: The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflicts of interest. Figure 1. PRISMA flow diagram.
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PY - 2020/12/19
Y1 - 2020/12/19
N2 - Background Children in lower middle-income countries (LMICs) are more at risk of dying, than those in High Income Countries (HICs), due to highly prevalent deadly yet preventable childhood infections. Alongside concerns about the incidence of these infections, there has been a renewed interest in involving community health workers (CHWs) in various public health programs. However, as CHWs are increasingly asked to take on different tasks there is a risk that their workload may become unmanageable. One solution to help reduce this burden is the use of mobile health (mHealth) technology in the community through behaviour change. Considering there are various CHWs based mHealth approaches on illness management and education, therefore, we aimed to appraise the available literature on effectiveness of these mHealth approaches for caregivers to improve knowledge and management about common under-five childhood infections with respect to behaviour change.
AB - Background Children in lower middle-income countries (LMICs) are more at risk of dying, than those in High Income Countries (HICs), due to highly prevalent deadly yet preventable childhood infections. Alongside concerns about the incidence of these infections, there has been a renewed interest in involving community health workers (CHWs) in various public health programs. However, as CHWs are increasingly asked to take on different tasks there is a risk that their workload may become unmanageable. One solution to help reduce this burden is the use of mobile health (mHealth) technology in the community through behaviour change. Considering there are various CHWs based mHealth approaches on illness management and education, therefore, we aimed to appraise the available literature on effectiveness of these mHealth approaches for caregivers to improve knowledge and management about common under-five childhood infections with respect to behaviour change.
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U2 - 10.7189/jogh.10.020438
DO - 10.7189/jogh.10.020438
M3 - Article
C2 - 33437462
AN - SCOPUS:85098779049
SN - 2047-2978
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Journal of Global Health
JF - Journal of Global Health
IS - 2
ER -