Exploring digital health interventions to support community health workers in low-and-middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 has significantly affected community health workers' (CHWs) performance as they are expected to perform pandemic-related tasks along with routine essential healthcare services. A plausible way to optimise CHWs' functioning during this pandemic is to couple the efforts of CHWs with digital tools. So far, no systematic evidence is available on the use of digital health interventions to support CHWs in low-middle-income countries (LMICs) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The article describes a protocol for a scoping review of primary research studies that aim to map evidence on the use of unique digital health interventions to support CHWs during COVID-19 in LMICs.

Methods and analysis

Our methodology has been adapted from scoping review guidelines provided by

SUBMITTER: Feroz AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8474078 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature