MHealth-Supported Delivery of an Evidence-Based Family Home-Visiting Intervention in Sierra Leone: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Past trauma and exposure to violence have been related to poor emotion regulation and household violence, which can have persistent mental health effects across generations. The Family Strengthening Intervention for Early Childhood Development (FSI-ECD/called Sugira Muryango in Rwanda) is an evidence-based behavioral home-visiting intervention to promote caregiver mental health, positive parenting practices, and early childhood development among families facing adversity. In Sierra Leone and other lower- and middle-income countries, mobile health (mHealth) technology has the potential to improve health care delivery and health outcomes.

Objective

This study aims to (1) apply a user-centered design to develop and test mHealth tools to improve supervision and fideli

SUBMITTER: Desrosiers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946434 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature