Trial reportJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Performance factors of mobile rich media job aids for community health workers.
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- Community health workers and mobile technology: a systematic review of the literature.PloS one · 2013Pooled it
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- Safe Delivery application with facilitation increases knowledge and confidence of obstetric and neonatal care among frontline health workers in India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of using digital technology to train community practitioners to deliver a family-based intervention for adolescents with drug use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.Addictive behaviors reports · 2021Article
- Information processing by community health nurses using mobile health (mHealth) tools for early identification of suicide and depression risks in Fiji Islands.BMJ health & care informatics · 2021Article
- Systems E-approach for women at risk (SEWA)-A digital health solution for detection of high-risk pregnancies.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021Article
- Youths' perceptions of community health workers' delivery of family planning services: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study in Nakaseke District, Uganda.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Exploring the mechanism through which a child-friendly storybook addresses barriers to child-participation during HIV care in primary healthcare settings in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo study and analyze the possible benefits on performance of community health workers using point-of-care clinical guidelines implemented as interactive rich media job aids on small-format mobile platforms.
designA crossover study with one intervention (rich media job aids) and one control (traditional job aids), two periods, with 50 community health workers, each subject solving a total 15 standardized cases per period per period (30 cases in total per subject). MEASUREMENTS: Error rate per case and task, protocol compliance.
resultsA total of 1394 cases were evaluated. Intervention reduces errors by an average of 33.15% (p = 0.001) and increases protocol compliance 30.18% (p < 0.001). Limitations Medical cases were presented on human patient simulators in a laboratory setting, not on real patients.
conclusionThese results indicate encouraging prospects for mHealth technologies in general, and the use of rich media clinical guidelines on cell phones in particular, for the improvement of community health worker performance in developing countries.
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