MANTRA: Improving Knowledge of Maternal Health, Neonatal Health, and Geohazards in Women in Rural Nepal Using a Mobile Serious Game.
digital health intervention
educational game
interdisciplinary research
knowledge assessment
mobile learning
serious game
serious mobile game
user evaluation
Journal
Frontiers in public health
ISSN: 2296-2565
Titre abrégé: Front Public Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101616579
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
17
07
2020
accepted:
19
11
2020
entrez:
28
12
2020
pubmed:
29
12
2020
medline:
15
5
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Serious games, conveying educational knowledge rather than merely entertainment, are a rapidly expanding research domain for cutting-edge educational technology. Digital interventions like serious games are great opportunities to overcome challenges in low-and-middle-income countries that limit access to health information, such as social barriers like low-literacy and gender. MANTRA: Increasing maternal and child health resilience before, during and after disasters using mobile technology in Nepal takes on these challenges with a novel digital health intervention; a serious mobile game aimed at vulnerable low-literacy female audiences in rural Nepal. The serious game teaches 28 learning objectives of danger signs in geohazards, maternal, and neonatal health to improve knowledge and self-assessment of common conditions and risks to inform healthcare-seeking behavior. Evaluations consisted of recruiting 35 end users to participate in a pre-test assessment, playing the game, post-test assessment, and focus groups to elicit qualitative feedback. Assessments analyzed knowledge gain in two ways; by learning objective with McNemar tests for each learning objective, and by participant scores with paired
Identifiants
pubmed: 33363082
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.584375
pmc: PMC7759478
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
584375Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Mueller, Soriano, Boscor, Saville, Arjyal, Baral, Fordham, Hearn, Kayastha and Kostkova.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
GH was employed by the company Hearn Geoserve, Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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