Assessing the reliability of phone surveys to measure reproductive, maternal and child health knowledge among pregnant women in rural India: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Efforts to understand the factors influencing the uptake of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (RMNCH&N) services in high disease burden low-resource settings have often focused on face-to-face surveys or direct observations of service delivery. Increasing access to mobile phones has led to growing interest in phone surveys as a rapid, low-cost alternatives to face-to-face surveys. We assess determinants of RMNCH&N knowledge among pregnant women with access to phones and examine the reliability of alternative modalities of survey delivery.

Participants

Women 5-7 months pregnant with access to a phone.

Setting

Four districts of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Design

Cross-sectional surveys administered face-to-face and within 2 weeks,

SUBMITTER: Ng A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8915337 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature