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mHealth Evidence was launched in 2012 to bring together the world’s literature on “mHealth” (broadly speaking, the application of mobile technologies to health service delivery). The collection was intended to help program managers, researchers, government leaders, donors, software developers, and other key decision-makers quickly get up to speed on the current state-of-the-art and evidence-based best practices. It included 11,000 bibliographic records of peer-reviewed and gray literature from low-, middle- and high-resource settings, with basic and advanced search. The database categorized evidence according to a taxonomy developed in partnership with the World Health Organization’s mHealth Technical and Evidence Review Group (mTERG).
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- ItemBump Buddy and Baby Buddy smartphone apps trialled.(2013-08-30)TWO FREE mobile phone apps to help young women prepare for parenthood are being tested with the backing of the RCN Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal College of Midwives
- ItemImproving recruitment and retention rates in preventive longitudinal research with adolescent mothers.(2009-08-25) Seed, Mary; Juarez, Magdalena; Alnatour, RanyaPROBLEM In order to understand the risks and protective factors associated with poor health outcomes in adolescent mothers and their children nurses need to design rigorous longitudinal research Attrition of subjects can contribute to sampling error Recruitment and retention efforts need to be optimized METHODS In a 4 year longitudinal study with adolescent mothers and their babies the design for tracking included frequent phone calls progressive monetary incentives gifts and one phone number of an alternative contact FINDINGS Of the 97 mother infant dyads recruited retention was 54 at 6 months and 38 at final data collection Successful strategies included persistence in making contacts and utilizing alternative contact numbers CONCLUSIONS Retention rates for this study were low With today s technology many additional strategies need to be employed to improve retention rates with adolescent mothers
- ItemMicrofluidic CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocyte counters for point-of-care HIV diagnostics using whole blood.(2013-12-05) Watkins, Nicholas N; Hassan, Umer; Damhorst, Gregory; Ni, Hengkan; Vaid, Awais; Rodriguez, William; Bashir, RashidRoughly 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV disease burden is highest in resource limited settings One important diagnostic in HIV disease management is the absolute count of lymphocytes expressing the CD4 and CD8 receptors The current diagnostic instruments and procedures require expensive equipment and trained technicians In response we have developed microfluidic biochips that count CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes in whole blood samples without the need for off chip sample preparation The device is based on differential electrical counting and relies on five on chip modules that in sequence chemically lyses erythrocytes quenches lysis to preserve leukocytes enumerates cells electrically depletes the target cells CD4 or CD8 with antibodies and enumerates the remaining cells electrically We demonstrate application of this chip using blood from healthy and HIV infected subjects Erythrocyte lysis and quenching durations were optimized to create pure leukocyte populations in less than 1 min Target cell depletion was accomplished through shear stress based immunocapture using antibody coated microposts to increase the contact surface area and enhance depletion efficiency With the differential electrical counting method device based CD4 and CD8 T cell counts closely matched control counts obtained from flow cytometry over a dynamic range of 40 to 1000 cells l By providing accurate cell counts in less than 20 min from samples obtained from one drop of whole blood this approach has the potential to be realized as a handheld battery powered instrument that would deliver simple HIV diagnostics to patients anywhere in the world regardless of geography or socioeconomic status
- ItemMobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) Lessons Learned(2018-05-14) Radha, R; Liu, A; Ollis, S; Sullivan, EUnderp This document highlights key operational lessons learned from four country programs Bangladesh South Africa India and Nigeria that implemented the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action MAMA approach The MAMA approach uses age and stage based messaging directed toward pregnant women new mothers and families to foster behavior change and improve maternal and child health outcomes This report aims to share operational lessons that country program implementers learned and the strategies they used to overcome implementation challenges Under p
- ItemNewborn health on the line: the potential mHealth applications.(2014-07-16) Agarwal, Smisha; Labrique, Alain
- ItemText messages as a learning tool for midwives.(2012-02-07) Woods, D; Attwell, A; Ross, K; Theron, GThe use of cell phone text messaging to improve access to continuing healthcare education in under resourced settings is not well documented We aimed to assess whether this method of education is acceptable to South African midwives in both the public and private sectors Essential healthcare lessons from the Maternal Care book of the Perinatal Education Programme PEP were delivered via text message to more than 2 500 midwives each week for a period of 6 months Each message concluded with a link to a website where additional information about each lesson could be accessed Results of a survey conducted with 50 of the message recipients demonstrated that the text messages were well received by the midwives the information was widely shared with colleagues and was believed to improve learning and patient care Lack of access to the internet or failure to utilise this facility to obtain additional information indicated that limitations still exist in internet based distance education especially in the public sector The use of text messaging promises to provide cost effective learning opportunities and improve a wide range of clinical services such as the management of HIV infected children and adults
- ItemUsing the lives saved tool (LiST) to model mHealth impact on neonatal survival in resource-limited settings.(2014-07-12) Jo, Youngji; Labrique, Alain B; Lefevre, Amnesty E; Mehl, Garrett; Pfaff, Teresa; Walker, Neff; Friberg, Ingrid KWhile the importance of mHealth scale up has been broadly emphasized in the mHealth community it is necessary to guide scale up efforts and investment in ways to help achieve the mortality reduction targets set by global calls to action such as the Millennium Development Goals not merely to expand programs We used the Lives Saved Tool LiST an evidence based modeling software to identify priority areas for maternal and neonatal health services by formulating six individual and combined interventions scenarios for two countries Bangladesh and Uganda Our findings show that skilled birth attendance and increased facility delivery as targets for mHealth strategies are likely to provide the biggest mortality impact relative to other intervention scenarios Although further validation of this model is desirable tools such as LiST can help us leverage the benefit of mHealth by articulating the most appropriate delivery points in the continuum of care to save lives