Management information systems for community based interventions to improve health: qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community based providers are well place to deliver behavioural interventions to improve health. Good project management and reliable outcome data are needed to efficiently deliver and evaluate such interventions, and Management information systems (MIS) can facilitate these processes. We explored stakeholders perspectives on the use of MIS in community based behavioural interventions.

Methods

Stakeholders, purposively selected to provide a range of MIS experience in the delivery of community based behavioural interventions to improve health (public health commissioners, intervention service managers, project officers, health researchers and MIS designers), were invited to participate in individual semi-structured interviews. We used a topic guide and encouraged s

SUBMITTER: Penn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343312 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature