2022
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13322
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The usefulness of nutrition and health videos displayed on mobile phones in rural Uganda: Experiences of community health workers and mothers

Abstract: Improvements in community health workers' (CHWs) knowledge and practices in low-income countries increasingly involve mobile phones and videos. However, little data exists on CHWs' and mothers' experiences of using such phones and videos. In this study, educational videos on nutrition, health and hygiene were downloaded onto mobile phones, which were given to 12 CHWs in rural Uganda.In 2018, these CHWs used the videos for a period of 3 months to support their work during their visits with families. We subseque… Show more

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“…An intervention in Uganda aimed to study the experiences of village health teams who used nutrition and health-related educational videos displayed on mobile phones during their family visits, and to analyse mothers' reflections on this video education [19]. Community health workers (CHWs) and mothers considered that the videos had more strongly impacted their learning than traditional teaching methods; they felt the videos improved the child-feeding and caring competence of both CHWs and mothers.…”
Section: Previous Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An intervention in Uganda aimed to study the experiences of village health teams who used nutrition and health-related educational videos displayed on mobile phones during their family visits, and to analyse mothers' reflections on this video education [19]. Community health workers (CHWs) and mothers considered that the videos had more strongly impacted their learning than traditional teaching methods; they felt the videos improved the child-feeding and caring competence of both CHWs and mothers.…”
Section: Previous Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Meanwhile the intervention group has shown a statistically significant improvement in mother/caregiver practice (p<0.05) compared to the control group in all tests. In article six (Schneider et al, 2022) Educational video is a promising method for improving children feeding and hygiene in Uganda. Mobile phones with nutrition education videos can effectively improves motivation in rural Uganda.…”
Section: The Effect Of Nutrition Education Towards Mother's Behaviormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In article six (Schneider et al, 2022) educational videos are methods to maintain and increase motivation, volunteering and influencing the correct feeding and hygiene practices of children in Uganda. According to theory of (Ahmad, 2021) there are several types of learning media such as visual media: graphs, charts, diagrams, posters, cartoons, comics.…”
Section: B Types Of Educational Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mobile health increased hospital delivery from 44% to 80.1% in Kenya [ 16 ] and showed improvement in tracking systems that improved maternal and child health in Rwanda [ 17 , 18 ]. The application of mobile phone text and video services improved maternal and child health in Uganda [ 19 ], Cape Town [ 20 ], South Africa [ 21 , 22 ], Nigeria [ 23 ], Pakistan [ 24 ], and Ethiopia [ 25 , 26 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%