Feasibility of Employing mHealth in Delivering Preventive Nutrition Interventions Targeting the First 1000 Days of Life: Experiences from a Community-Based Cluster Randomised Trial in Rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

An Android platform-based customised app and web-linked system was developed to aid in implementing selected nutrition interventions by community health workers (CHWs) in a community-based cluster randomised trial (c-RCT) in rural Bangladesh.

Methods

Here, we describe the architecture of the intervention delivery system, and explore feasibility of employing mHealth as CHWs' job aid, employing a mixed-method study design covering 17 visits per mother-child dyad. We analysed CHWs' real-time visit information from monitoring and documentation data, and CHWs' qualitative interviews to explore the advantages and barriers of using mHealth as a job aid.

Results

Intervention coverage was high across the arms (>90%), except around the narrow perinatal per

SUBMITTER: Ferdous TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11510744 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature