Patient-Held Maternal and/or Child Health Records: Meeting the Information Needs of Patients and Healthcare Providers?

Turner, Kathleen E.; Fuller, Sherrilynne S.

doi:10.5210/ojphi.v3i2.3631

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“…A review of research on maternal information seeking behaviors concluded that expectant mothers from developing countries and low-income expectant mothers from developed countries preferred interpersonal information sources. 16 Low health literacy levels were associated with less use of the Internet among low-income expectant mothers in urban Midwestern United States. 17 An Australian study that surveyed expectant mothers of middle-income and higher-income found that for the women who received midwife-led pregnancy care, their midwife was their most useful source of information, whereas for the women who received most of their care from a doctor in an antenatal clinic, the Internet was their most useful source of information.…”

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The Utility of Developmental Checklists in Parent-held Health Records in Singapore

Koh

Ang²,

Kwok³

et al. 2016

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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Further revisions to the checklists can include simplifying the words and sentences and providing relevant pictures to aid understanding. If the checklists are to be used for screening, standardization of how the checklists are to be completed and how children at risk of developmental delays can be identified on the checklists need to be provided. Parents' awareness of the importance of evaluating their child's development at 9 months, 18 months, and particularly at 2.5 years, needs to be raised. Developmental screening for children at these critical ages can be made mandatory. An electronic version of the health booklet is likely to facilitate implementation of developmental screening in the health care system.

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The Utility of Developmental Checklists in Parent-held Health Records in Singapore

Koh

Ang²,

Kwok³

et al. 2016

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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“…The high record ownership for younger children observed in the provincial data may indicate that younger children had more opportunities to obtain their record if it was provided to their mothers before childbirth, such as in the form of the MCHHB. Providing the MCHHB before birth may have addressed mothers’ need for information about basic infant and child development and care, which is often lacking in developing countries (35). However, further investigation would be needed to determine whether MCHHB distribution increases earlier service access after childbirth.…”

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The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia

Osaki

Hattori

Kosen

2013

Global Health Action

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BackgroundThe provision of appropriate care along the continuum of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) service delivery is a challenge in developing countries. To improve this, in the 1990s, Indonesia introduced the maternal and child health (MCH) handbook, as an integrated form of parallel home-based records.ObjectiveThis study aimed to identify the roles of home-based records both before and after childbirth, especially in provinces where the MCH handbook (MCHHB) was extensively promoted, by examining their association with MNCH service uptake.DesignThis was a cross-sectional study using nationally representative data sets, the Indonesia Demographic and Health Surveys (IDHSs) from 1997, 2002–2003, and 2007. The IDHS identifies respondents’ ownership of home-based records before and after childbirth. Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine associations between record ownership and service utilisation in national data and data from two provinces, West Sumatra and North Sulawesi, where ownership of pre- and post-natal records served as a proxy for MCHHB ownership.ResultsPre- and post-natal record ownership increased from 1997 to 2007. Provincial data from 2007 showed that handbook ownership was associated with having delivery assisted by trained personnel [adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 2.12, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.05–4.25], receiving maternal care (aOR: 3.92, 95% CI: 2.35–6.52), completing 12 doses of child immunisation for seven diseases (aOR: 4.86, 95% CI: 2.37–9.95), and having immunisation before and after childbirth (aOR: 5.40, 95% CI: 2.28–12.76), whereas national data showed that service utilisation was associated with ownership of both records compared with owning a single record or none.ConclusionOur results suggest that pre- and post-natal home-based record use may be effective for ensuring service utilisation. In addition, since the handbook is an efficient home-based record for use throughout children's life courses, it could be an effective tool for promoting the continuum of MNCH care in Indonesia.

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“…It has been suggested that patient-held medical records could play an important role in monitoring the continuity of health service use 25 , 26 . Here we investigated a method for using patient-held records – a so-called family planning card – to collect contraceptive data.…”

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Using patient-held records to evaluate contraceptive use in Malawi

Dasgupta

Ngwalo

Branson

et al. 2015

Bull. World Health Organ.

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ObjectiveTo investigate a method of using patient-held records to collect contraception data in Malawi, that could be used to explore contraceptive discontinuation and method switching.MethodsIn 2012, all 7393 women aged 15 to 49 years living in the area covered by the Karonga demographic surveillance site were offered a family planning card, which was attached to the woman’s health passport – a patient-held medical record. Health-care providers were trained to use the cards to record details of contraception given to women. During the study, providers underwent refresher training sessions and received motivational text messages to improve data completeness. After one year, the family planning cards were collected for analysis.FindingsOf the 7393 eligible women, 6861 (92.8%) received a family planning card and 4678 (63.3%) returned it after one year. Details of 87.3% (2725/3122) of contacts between health-care providers and the women had been recorded by health-care providers on either family planning cards or health passports. Lower-level health-care providers were more diligent at recording data on the family planning cards than higher-level providers.ConclusionThe use of family planning cards was an effective way of recording details of contraception provided by family planning providers. The involvement of health-care providers was key to the success of this approach. Data collected in this way should prove helpful in producing accurate estimates of method switching and the continuity of contraceptive use by women.

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Patient-Held Maternal and/or Child Health Records: Meeting the Information Needs of Patients and Healthcare Providers?

Cited by 27 publications

References 91 publications

The Utility of Developmental Checklists in Parent-held Health Records in Singapore

The Utility of Developmental Checklists in Parent-held Health Records in Singapore

The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia

Using patient-held records to evaluate contraceptive use in Malawi

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