Prevalence in the utilization of text message services under the mother and child tracking system of India: a cross sectional study from Pune district, Maharashtra, India

Sharma, Ankita; Shinde, Aakash; Kar, Anita

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20162591

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“…The finding of this study that ASHAs and ANMs had to fill work plans, registers and tracking format separately which caused additional work burden on them, is coherent with that of Gera et al (6) This study had found that ASHAs were writing their own mobile numbers in the register to avoid delay in uploading the numbers of pregnant women on the portal. This finding is similar to the study by Sharma et al (8)…”

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Study on Technical, Behavioral and Organizational Factors Affecting the Performance of Mother and Child Tracking System in Rural Area of Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: A Qualitative Study

Verma

Kansal

Sarkar

et al. 2020

Indian J Community Health

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Background: The Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) portal captures and tracks all pregnant women right from conception up to 42 days after delivery and all children below five years. Objectives: This study was conducted to find out the technical, behavioral and organizational factors that affect the process and performance of MCTS. Material and Methods: This was an exploratory qualitative study conducted in Varanasi district by using multistage random sampling method. Data were collected by in-depth interviews of 48 health care providers. Results: Majority of the ANMs and ASHAs were not aware of the meaning of “Tracking System” and the use of MCTS ID. Inappropriate training of ASHAs, absence of supervision and monitoring by ANMs, overburdened DEOs and ANMs, poor internet connection, slow server speed, software problem and frequent power failures were identified as major factors for poor performance of MCTS. Conclusion: The most effective measure to improve the performance of MCTS would be to properly train grass root level workers so that more efficient data can be fed into MCTS.

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“…This finding corroborates with other studies. (5,8) Additional data entry staff can help in data entry and reduce workload.…”

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Study on Technical, Behavioral and Organizational Factors Affecting the Performance of Mother and Child Tracking System in Rural Area of Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: A Qualitative Study

Verma

Kansal

Sarkar

et al. 2020

Indian J Community Health

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“…The study had cited low education, mobile phone possession and language of SMS to be a major barrier for receipt of SMS. [ 22 ] A study done in slum residents of Kenya had observed that although 94% of the study population was willing to receive SMS but only 38% actually reported receiving them. [ 23 ]…”

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Evaluating scope of mobile technology for bridging health care gaps in impoverished population in LMICs

Faujdar

Kaur

Singh

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

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Background: mHealth has potential to improve health care delivery but little is known about its effectiveness on health amongst marginalized communities. This study was carried out to determine the scope and usefulness of mHealth implementation in underprivileged slum population. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban slum of Northern India where the government primary health care facility was digitized and mHealth component was integrated into the system to improve the health care service delivery. The survey was conducted using a pre-tested questionnaire among 921 persons who were sent SMSs within the last 2 months prior to survey to assess the reach and acceptability of mHealth in the underprivileged slum populations, and the role it can play to improve the healthcare services provided through primary health care facility. Results: In the surveyed population majority (59.8%) were young (18–30 years), females (79.3%), Hindu (94%) belonged to Scheduled caste (77.8%) and a significant percentage of them were illiterates (30%). Mobile phones were available with 87% of the surveyed population and more than 50% had smartphones. Though, only 59.5% of individuals confirmed the receipt of SMS, a very high proportion of survey population (98.3%) were willing to receive health-related SMS. About 72% individuals received SMSs and remembered the content of the message. Adherence to health advise sent through SMS was significantly higher among females (OR = 2.4 (95% CI: 1.2,5.1), P = 0.01), those who read messages themselves (OR = 1.9 (95% CI: 1.0, 3.3), P = 0.03), and who received SMS more than once in a month (OR = 2.2 (95% CI: 1.2, 4.2), P = 0.01). Majority of those who received SMS (83%) expressed that the health-related SMS were beneficial to them. Conclusion: mHealth has high potential to improve reach and increase accessibility of health care services for marginalized communities.

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“…The use of mobile technology such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices in the field of medical and public health practices is called mHealth or Connected Health (WHO,2011). Evidence exists that mHealth can help in dispersing health information to rural and remote areas (Sharma, Shinde, &Kar, 2017), serve reminders, provide an appropriate response to an emergency, monitor and bestow support (Sondaal et al,2016). mHealth can help the user consult and seek an appointment with health professionals, access both test result as well as personal health information (Hoque,2016).…”

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mHEALTH FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF INDIAN RURAL POPULACE; URGENT NEED TO MAINSTREAM MHEALTH WITH THE EMERGENCE OF COVID-19

Venkataraghavan¹,

Rani²,

Ashok³

et al. 2021

JCCC

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mHealth now, more than ever, need to be integrated with existing health systems to further contactless healthcare and health delivery solutions. Studies have reported that mHealth can ensure enhanced health outcomes, ample patient care and offer quality support for professional health workers. Several studies have examined the potential of mHealth from various stakeholder perspectives. However, a serious dearth of studies exists that examine the advantages and challenges of using this technology from mHealth users‘ perspective especially in the rural context. This study examines the use of mobile phones for health-related purposes from the perspective of rural people belonging to the South Indian state of Karnataka. The focus is on their use of mobile phone to seek medical assistance, health information and services. The study also seeks to understand the barriers and challenges faced by the rural folk in accessing health related services, information and assistance through mobile phones. A qualitative research approach using in-depth interviews as data collection tool, was applied. Mobile phones are reported as useful by the rural mobile phone users for receiving health-related messages as well as for accessing help during emergency health conditions. However, to enable equity of use of this technology in the rural scenario and also for the government to use this technology for providing responses during public health emergencies such as COVID-19, challenges such as the existing mobile phone infrastructure, digital illiteracy and perceived health concerns of mobile phone use among rural folk need to be addressed.

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Prevalence in the utilization of text message services under the mother and child tracking system of India: a cross sectional study from Pune district, Maharashtra, India

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Study on Technical, Behavioral and Organizational Factors Affecting the Performance of Mother and Child Tracking System in Rural Area of Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: A Qualitative Study

Study on Technical, Behavioral and Organizational Factors Affecting the Performance of Mother and Child Tracking System in Rural Area of Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: A Qualitative Study

Evaluating scope of mobile technology for bridging health care gaps in impoverished population in LMICs

mHEALTH FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF INDIAN RURAL POPULACE; URGENT NEED TO MAINSTREAM MHEALTH WITH THE EMERGENCE OF COVID-19

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