ArticlePloS one2026
Mobile health supported real-time guidance and debriefing for newborn resuscitation: A pilot study of LIVEBORN feedback.
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Basic resuscitation practices, particularly bag-mask ventilation, reduce newborn deaths from respiratory depression. There is strong scientific premise for improving bag-mask ventilation with feedback strategies, but there are significant barriers to bedside feedback in low-resource settings. To address these barriers, we developed LIVEBORN, a mobile health application to support feedback for newborn resuscitations. LIVEBORN uses data on provider actions and the newborn's condition entered in real-time by an observer to provide real-time guidance during resuscitation and support debriefing after resuscitation. In a pilot study, we designed and then evaluated strategies to incorporate LIVEBORN Feedback into clinical practice at two health facilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with one facility allocated to real-time guidance and one to debriefing. Providers at each facility used a participatory research methodology called Trials of Improved Practices to design and refine their strategy prior to pilot testing. The primary outcome of the pilot study was the feasibility of observing resuscitation care with LIVEBORN, defined as the percentage of births observed using LIVEBORN with a threshold of at least 50% of births observed to achieve feasibility. We also evaluated usability with the System Usability Scale and explored midwives' perceptions of LIVEBORN Feedback in focus group discussions. During the pilot test, we found both strategies to be feasible with 74% of births observed with LIVEBORN at the real-time guidance facility and 67% at the debriefing facility. The strategy was also sufficiently usable with a System Usability Scale median score of 68 (Q1 65, Q3 78). Midwives perceived LIVEBORN Feedback to be helpful and believed it could save lives, but sometimes disagreed with LIVEBORN Feedback's guidance to ventilate. In conclusion, we identified context-specific, feasible strategies for incorporating LIVEBORN Feedback into clinical care. We are now evaluating the effectiveness of LIVEBORN Feedback in a randomized control trial.
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