The usefulness of nutrition and health videos displayed on mobile phones in rural Uganda: Experiences of community health workers and mothers

Schneider, Lauriina; Ollila, Saara; Mutanen, Marja

doi:10.1111/mcn.13322

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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.…”

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Mobile Phone-Based Nutrition Education Targeting Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in Sri Lanka

Peiris¹,

Wijesinghe²,

Gunawardana³

et al. 2023

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Introduction: A woman’s nutrition during pregnancy and nursing affects the mother and the growing child. Similarly, the first two years of a child’s life are critical to their growth and development and are facilitated by optimum nutrition. Women’s nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices influence household food and nutrition security. Mobile health (mHealth) is a potentially effective health intervention in pandemic situations when physical gatherings are restricted. Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of a mobile phone-based nutrition education intervention targeting pregnant and nursing mothers in six Sri Lankan divisional secretariat areas. Method: This intervention was evaluated using a before and after within-subjects design. The intervention included 19 messages over four weeks sent via mobile phone, covering nutrition themes such as pregnancy care, infant and young child-feeding, diet, family care for mother and child, and cash management. The intervention was evaluated based on a quantitative survey using a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire and qualitative interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire. The study population was pregnant and nursing mothers. The objective of the qualitative interviews was to identify how respondents used messages and how satisfied they were with the project. The outcome measures were awareness/knowledge, attitudes, social norms, self-efficacy, behaviour intentions, and practices of pregnant and nursing mothers. Trained enumerators collected data using a mobile phone. Results: A total of 996 pregnant and nursing mothers participated in the pre-assessment survey, of which 720 completed the post-assessment. Most were nursing mothers (84.2% pre- and 78.9% post-assessment). Participants provided positive feedback on the intervention. Knowledge/awareness (t = −18.70, p < 0.01) and attitudes (t = −2.00, p < 0.05) increased when exposed to the intervention. Favourable improvements in the practices were also observed. Mothers’ practices related to breastfeeding and 24-h dietary diversity showed a statistically significant improvement. However, social norms and behaviour intentions did not significantly improve. The qualitative component also revealed favourable responses. Conclusion and Recommendations: The mobile intervention improved participants’ knowledge, awareness, attitude, and practices, but not social norms or behaviour intentions. This approach is recommended to be used on a larger scale in community settings. In addition, mobile technology could drive intervention in pandemic-related situations.

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Mobile Phone-Based Nutrition Education Targeting Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in Sri Lanka

Peiris¹,

Wijesinghe²,

Gunawardana³

et al. 2023

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“…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.…”

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“…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.…”

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improvement of knowledge, attitude, and behavior of toddler feeding through nutrition education video

Febriyani¹,

Ismail

Ningsih³

2022

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Background: children’s health and nutrition are an important investment that could save children’s life, improve children’s educational result and economic productivity. The effect of malnutrition at the early life are failed to grow, failed develop and failed metabolism of the body. Nutrition education is a sustainable process to improve the knowledge about nutrition, shape the attitude and behavior of healthy life by paying attention to the daily diet and other factors that affect the meal as well as improve someone’s health and nutritional status. Health education in community through audiovisual media web based could effectively improve parents’ knowledge about the monitoring of toddlers’ growth and development. Aim: to explore the effect of nutritional education through video towards the improvement of knowledge, attitude and behavior of toddlers feeding. Method: the method used is scoping review by using checklist PRISM-ScR, while it has 22 items of assessment and 20 items of important report and 2 items of optional that identify the question of scoping review by using framework PICO, selecting the relevant article based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria by utilizing databases such as ProQuest, PubMed, Willey Online Library, and Google Scholar to conduct the literature searching,,,

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“…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 ].…”

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The role of mHealth intervention to improve maternal and child health: A provider-based qualitative study in Southern Ethiopia

Gilano,

Dekker,

Fijten

2024

PLoS ONE

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Introduction Maternal and child mortality remained higher in developing regions such as Southern Ethiopia due to poor maternal and child health. Technologies such as mobile applications in health may be an opportunity to reduce maternal and child mortality because they can improve access to information. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to explore the role of mHealth in improving maternal and child health in Southern Ethiopia. Methods This study employed a qualitative study design to explore the role of mHealth in improving maternal and child health among health professionals in Southern Ethiopia from December 2022 to March 2023. We conducted nine in-depth interviews, six key informants’ in-depth interviews, and four focused group discussions among health professionals. This is followed by thematic analyses to synthesize the collected evidence. Results The results are based on 226 quotations, 5 major themes, and 24 subthemes. The study participants discussed the possible acceptance of mHealth in terms of its fitness in the existing health system, its support to health professionals, and its importance in improving maternal and child health. The participants ascertained the importance of awareness creation before the implementation of mHealth among women, families, communities, and providers. They reported the importance of mHealth for mothers and health professionals and the effectiveness of mHealth services. The participants stated that the main challenges related to acceptance, awareness, negligence, readiness, and workload. However, they also suggested strategic solutions such as using family support, provider support, mothers’ forums, and community forums. Conclusion The evidence generated during this analysis is important information for program implementations and can inform policy-making. The planned intervention needs to introduce mHealth in Southern Ethiopia. Planners, decision-makers, and researchers can use it in mobile technology-related interventions. For challenges identified, we recommend solution-identified-based interventions and quality studies.

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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

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Mobile Phone-Based Nutrition Education Targeting Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in Sri Lanka

Mobile Phone-Based Nutrition Education Targeting Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in Sri Lanka

improvement of knowledge, attitude, and behavior of toddler feeding through nutrition education video

The role of mHealth intervention to improve maternal and child health: A provider-based qualitative study in Southern Ethiopia

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