Cancer as a death sentence: developing an initial program theory for an IVR intervention.

ABSTRACT: To address current trends in poor health-seeking behaviour and late cancer diagnosis in many low- and middle-income countries, like Uganda, it is important to explore innovative awareness building interventions. One possible intervention is a common digital format, an interactive voice response (IVR) system, which is suitable for individuals with low technological and reading literacy. It is increasingly acknowledged that developing digital interventions requires co-creation with relevant stakeholders and explication of program developers' assumptions, to make them effective, sustainable, and scalable. To this end, we sought to develop an initial program theory for a co-created IVR system for cancer awareness in Uganda. Utilising principles of the realist approach, a qualitative explorator

SUBMITTER: Ilozumba O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9342624 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature