Measuring childhood mortality through mobile phone interviews in Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Childhood mortality is a key indicator of progress in health and development in low- and middle-income countries, traditionally measured through household surveys with face-to-face interviews. This study explored an alternative approach that used mobile phone interviews with women in Mozambique.

Methods

Using two sampling approaches, we interviewed women of reproductive age about their pregnancy history through mobile phones. The first method used an existing database of phone numbers collected from a national mortality surveillance, Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA). The second employed random digit dialling (RDD) to generate phone numbers. The COMSA phone sample successfully reached 13,545 women while the RDD sample reached 10,359 women. We c

SUBMITTER: Kante AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12501560 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature