A novel wide scale well-baby clinic mobile application: an Egyptian pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Utilization of under 5-year-old child healthcare services in Egypt is considered low, the highest proportion of well-baby visits is mainly for immunization in the first 2 years of age. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have the potential to be a useful and low-cost way to disseminate information about proper nutrition, can be used to monitor children's growth using the official charts of World Health Organization, can also help in accessing vaccine-related information and schedules.

Objectives

To assess needs and requirements for a new comprehensive well-baby clinic mobile application (app) covering well-baby clinic service components. Thereafter, to develop the app prototype and validate it.

Methods

This study was conducted in four phases: User require

SUBMITTER: Ibrahim NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290293 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature