A mobile health app may improve maternal and child health knowledge and practices among rural women with limited education in Uganda: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

low literacy mobile phones multimedia prenatal care

Journal

JAMIA open
ISSN: 2574-2531
Titre abrégé: JAMIA Open
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101730643

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Historique:
received: 11 12 2021
revised: 24 08 2022
accepted: 21 09 2022
entrez: 13 10 2022
pubmed: 14 10 2022
medline: 14 10 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This article describes the impact of a mobile health app ( Pregnant women initiating antenatal care (ANC) were randomized (1:1) to the Of the 80 enrolled participants, 69 (86%) completed the study with a median follow-up of 6 months. Women in the The app increased knowledge and practices although not reaching statistical significance. Future efforts can focus on addressing social and economic issues and assessing clinical outcomes.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36225894
doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac081
pii: ooac081
pmc: PMC9542753
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

ooac081

Subventions

Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : K24 MH114732
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Auteurs

Angella Musiimenta (A)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
Angels Compassion Research and Development Initiative, Mbarara, Uganda.

Wilson Tumuhimbise (W)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Esther C Atukunda (EC)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Aaron T Mugaba (AT)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
Angels Compassion Research and Development Initiative, Mbarara, Uganda.

Justus Asasira (J)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Jane Katusiime (J)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Raphael Zender (R)

Department of Computer Science, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Niels Pinkwart (N)

Department of Computer Science, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Godfrey Rwambuka Mugyenyi (GR)

Department of Information Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Jessica E Haberer (JE)

Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Medicine Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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