Representativeness of a mobile phone-based coverage evaluation survey following mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminths: a comparison of participation between two cross-sectional surveys.

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Objectives

With increasing mobile phone subscriptions, phone-based surveys are gaining popularity with public health programmes. Despite advantages, systematic exclusion of participants may limit representativeness. Similar to control programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the DeWorm3 trial of biannual community-wide mass drug administration (MDA) for elimination of soil-transmitted helminth infection used in-person coverage evaluation surveys to measure the proportion of the at-risk population treated during MDA. Due to lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, a phone-based coverage evaluation survey was necessary, providing an opportunity for the current study to compare representativeness and implementation (including non-response) of these two survey modes.

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SUBMITTER: Ramesh RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619066 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature