Access to information technology and willingness to receive text message reminders for childhood immunisation among mothers attending a tertiary facility in Lagos, Nigeria

Balogun, Mobolanle; Sekoni, Adekemi; Okafor, Ifeoma P.; Odukoya, Oluwakemi Ololade; Ezeiru, S S; Ogunnowo, Babatunde; Campbell, P C

doi:10.7196/sajch.439

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“…This study is in line with a study from Ethiopia among ART patients [24], Nigeria among women willingness for child immunization [27]. The result suggests that implementing SMS based mhealth intervention is particularly more feasible in the younger age group and more educated once.…”

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confidence: 77%

Assessing Mobile Phone Access and Willingness for Text-Based mHealth Intervention to Improve Prenatal Care at Primary Care Centers in North West Ethiopia: a Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

Endehabtu¹,

Nigusie²,

Were³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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Background: Maternal mortality remains high in many low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) where limited access to health services is linked to low antenatal care (ANC) utilization. Effective communication and engagement with care providers is vital for the delivery and receipt of sufficient health care services. There is strong evidence to show that simple text-based interventions can improve prenatal care utilization but most mHealth interventions doesn't go to scale because of lack of context. The aim of this study was to determine access to mobile phones by pregnant women attending ANC, willingness to receive an SMS-based mHealth intervention for ANC services and to identify its associated factors among pregnant women attending ANC clinic in Gondar Town administration, North West Ethiopia.

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confidence: 77%

Assessing Mobile Phone Access and Willingness for Text-Based mHealth Intervention to Improve Prenatal Care at Primary Care Centers in North West Ethiopia: a Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

Endehabtu¹,

Nigusie²,

Were³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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“…However, the study indicated that the use of ICT may be affected by the level of IT skills possessed by women. Likewise, a study by Balogun et al (2012) involving 399 mothers, at a tertiary health clinic in Lagos, Nigeria, reported that mothers (77%) were positively disposed to use mobile phones for receiving appointment reminders. Brown, Oluwatosin and Ogundeji (2015) also observed a related trend in Oyo State, Nigeria, where 95.1% of the 614 mothers expressed willingness to use their cell phones to receive appointment reminders.…”

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Mothers’ perception of maternal and child health information disseminated via different modes of ICT in Nigeria

Obasola

Mabawonku

2018

Health Info Libraries J

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BackgroundA few studies have examined mothers’ perception of ICT and maternal and child health (MCH) information promoted using ICT. The effectiveness of different modes of delivery of such information is unclear.ObjectiveTo investigate mothers’ perceived usefulness of ICT and MCH information disseminated through e‐health projects in Nigeria.MethodsThe study was a descriptive survey that was based on the mixed method paradigm. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 1001 mothers involved in ongoing ICT based projects in Nigeria. The mothers were selected using a convenience sampling technique. Four focus group discussion sessions were also organised for thirty mothers.ResultsMobile phones were viewed as useful (35.0%) or very useful (42.2%) and radio as useful (34.8%) or very useful (57.5%%). But they expressed a negative perception towards the use of DVD/TV (Not useful, 66.5%) and the Internet/computer (Not useful 67.7%). Mothers’ perception of MCH information disseminated was also positive. They reported the need for more MCH information products in local languages using acceptable ICT.ConclusionMothers’ perception of preferred modes of delivery of maternal and child health information varies according to location.

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“…Adherence to medication procedures is a crucial part of diseases control and treatment, particularly for diseases such as diabetes, cardiac, rheumatoid arthritis, vaccines preventable diseases and HIV/AID. Non-adherence to medications regimens for the control and management of deadly diseases by patients has been attributed to forgetfulness, carelessness, misunderstanding of treatment instruction, lack of patient support after discharge, feeling better, or feeling worse (Khonsari et al 2015, Balogun et al 2012). This is evident in World Health Statistics by WHO (2014) that about half of the world's under-five mortality still occurred in only five countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, to address dissatisfaction caused by diseases, there have been several mobile phone-based interventions such as short message service (SMS), calls and interactive voice response (IVR) between patients and health caregivers to educate and remind patients of their clinic and immunization appointments, medications taking and procedures (Segaren et al, 2012, Balogun et al, 2012, Michelle et al, 2015, Osborn and Mulvaney, 2013.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although there is increasing popularity in the use of mobile phone-based interventions in healthcare delivery; the willingness to use and to pay for the services of mobile phone-based intervention varies across patients groups. (Balogun et al 2012, Michelle et al 2015, Patel et al 2013. , a systematic review is required to evaluate their effectiveness on adherence support services with medications regimens and immunizations uptakes.…”

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The Effectiveness of Mobile Phone-Based Interventions in Adherence Support for Medication regimens and Immunizations Uptake: A Systematic Review

Onamade¹

2018

AIMS Research Journal Publication

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Mobile phone-based interventions have shown success in support of immunization or medications uptake compliance. A systematic review was undertaken to uncover evidence on the use of mobile phones functions to improve health care process and outcomes. An extensive literature survey was conducted for research studies published between January 2010 and July 2016. Data on mobile phone-based interventions were extracted for the content of mobile phone-based intervention, feasibility, acceptability and health outcomes. It was realised that the deployments of calls and SMS interventions as reminders for clinic appointments, in support of pills intake and in health information delivery are not without challenges.

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Access to information technology and willingness to receive text message reminders for childhood immunisation among mothers attending a tertiary facility in Lagos, Nigeria

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Assessing Mobile Phone Access and Willingness for Text-Based mHealth Intervention to Improve Prenatal Care at Primary Care Centers in North West Ethiopia: a Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

Assessing Mobile Phone Access and Willingness for Text-Based mHealth Intervention to Improve Prenatal Care at Primary Care Centers in North West Ethiopia: a Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

Mothers’ perception of maternal and child health information disseminated via different modes of ICT in Nigeria

The Effectiveness of Mobile Phone-Based Interventions in Adherence Support for Medication regimens and Immunizations Uptake: A Systematic Review

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