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Impact of a mHealth Intervention for Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rural Uganda: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Cluster-Randomized Trial
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Mobile phone access in low and middle-income countries is rapidly expanding and offers an opportunity to leverage limited human resources for health. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial exploratory substudy on the impact of a mHealth (mobile phone) support intervention used by community-based peer health workers (PHW) on AIDS care in rural Uganda. 29 PHWs at 10 clinics were randomized by clinic to receive the intervention or not. PHWs used phones to call and text higher level providers with patient-specific clinical information. 970 patients cared for by the PHWs were followed over a 26 month period. No significant differences were found in patients' risk of virologic failure. Qualitative analyses found improvements in patient care and logistics and broad support for the mHealth intervention among patients, clinic staff, and PHWs. Key challenges identified included variable patient phone access, privacy concerns, and phone maintenance.
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“Mobile devices facilitated two‐way communication between all categories of health workers and clients (Chang 2011; Garg 2016; Hampshire 2016; Hirsch‐Moverman 2017), and kept health workers informed about the clients' conditions (Barnabee 2014; Huq 2014).”
From Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis (2020) · cites this paper as Chang 2011
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“The exchange broke the hierarchy between health worker categories, when previously unreachable professionals could more easily be reached (Chang 2011; Huq 2014; Khan 2015).”
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“Health workers felt that health promotion and educational messaging directed at clients using mobile health interventions, impacted positively on clients' health behaviours”
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“As compared to voice calls, reservations about the lack of immediate response via SMS were noted, privacy concerns were raised, and phone maintenance and charging were also problematic.”
From Mobile Health (mHealth) Approaches and Lessons for Increased Performance and Retention of Community Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review (2013) · cites this paper as [34]
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“A randomized controlled trial delivered SMS to community-based peer health workers in rural Uganda supporting antiretroviral treatment for HIV patients [34]. No virological differences in patient outcome over 26 months were observed, but limited qualitative data showed improvements in patient care, logistics, and broad support from health workers and patients.”
From Mobile Health (mHealth) Approaches and Lessons for Increased Performance and Retention of Community Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review (2013) · cites this paper as [34]
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“reported mortality at 11‐ to 12‐month follow‐up (RR 0.82, 95% CI 0.55 to 1.22 and RR 0.94, 95% CI 0.28 to 3.12, respectively; 1157 participants; low‐certainty evidence; Analysis 12.1).”
From Mobile technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care (2020) · cites this paper as Chang 2011
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“reported that healthcare professionals allocated to the intervention were not always able to charge the mobile phone, and that some mobile phones were stolen (Chang 2011; Analysis 15.1).”
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“Current use of mobile technology by frontline healthcare workers in Uganda [21] and other LMICs [20] was also for purposes other than clinical consultation and decision making.”
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“Similar to our findings, the Uganda study [21] also found phone reliability as a key barrier to mobile application use.”
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“Most studies conducted in LMICs involved the use of short message service (SMS) and voice communication to improve CHWs performance [13, 14].”
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“In one study, health workers perceived direct contact as improving relationships between lower‐ and higher‐level workers (Chang 2011).”
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“and encouraged truthful reporting (Chang 2011)”
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“some felt it was useful”
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“Some health workers perceived this as useful in emergency cases (Chang 2011; Hampshire 2016)”
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“In one study, health workers thought that clients were motivated to improve their adherence because they were aware that information about their adherence was being relayed to clinic staff by field staff in real time via the mobile devices (Chang 2011).”
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“Health workers reported that their access to mobile devices was beneficial to clients and communities who were too poor to own mobile phones (very low confidence in the evidence)”
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“including clients not having phones”
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“No virological differences in patient outcome over 26 months were observed, but limited qualitative data showed improvements in patient care, logistics, and broad support from health workers and patients.”
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“Improvements in peer health worker morale and confidence were reported; peer health worker-patient relationships improved, shifting burdens from staff-patient relationships.”
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“Improvements in peer health worker morale and confidence were reported; peer health worker-patient relationships improved, shifting burdens from staff-patient relationships.”
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“This is consistent with our results, especially for settings where constant access to electricity might be an issue (Chang 2011).”
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“In an exploratory mixed method process evaluation sub-study to a cluster RCT on the impact on mobile phones on HIV/AIDS care in rural Uganda [21], qualitative data suggested broad support by frontline healthcare workers for the use of mobile phone applications to support their work.”
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“Other LMICs studies on use of digital technology in healthcare [20–22] have tended to focus on health domains other than mental health.”
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“The study found out that the mHealth support intervention used by PHWs resulted in improvements in patient care and logistics [14].”
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“Impact evaluation of the RAFT activities remains an “unfinished business” (40–43)”
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“Other studies have shown that poor network coverage and signal strength are often a major limitation to implementation of mobile technologies [23, 27, 31, 65, 66].”
From Qualitative Assessment of the Feasibility, Usability, and Acceptability of a Mobile Client Data App for Community-Based Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Care in Rural Ghana (2016) · cites this paper as [66]
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“A similar advantage of m-health interventions was also reported in a study conducted in Uganda [27], and in a systematic review of the feasibility and effectiveness of m-health strategies in LMICs [45].”
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“and can facilitate task-shifting, and increase health workers morale [25, 27].”
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“and can facilitate task-shifting, and increase health workers morale [25, 27].”
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“Quantitative results from the 970 patients managed (446 in intervention arm, 524 in control), however, failed to show any statistical difference between the intervention and the control arm in terms of the primary outcome (virological failure) (19.4% vs. 16.4% in the intervention and control arms, respectively).”
From Assessing the impact of mHealth interventions in low- and middle-income countries – what has been shown to work? (2014) · cites this paper as [39]
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“Qualitative results suggest improved communication and patient care, because patients could now contact CHWs who would work to treat the patient (if possible), whereas previously their needs would have gone unmet or be borne by clinic staff.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chang, L. W., Kagaayi, J., Arem, H., Nakigozi, G., Ssempijja, V., Serwadda, D., Quinn, T. C., Gray, R. H., Bollinger, R. C., & Reynolds, S. J.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Rakai Health Sciences Program (UG)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chang, Larry W.
- ORCID
- Venue
- AIDS and Behavior
- Published
- 2011-07-08
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1776-1784
- ISSN
- 1090-7165 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3254
- PMC
- PMC3265752
- OpenAlex
- W2042543641
- Cited by
- 184
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 24.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- AIDS and Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (K23MH086338)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2T32-AI07291, T32AI007291, ZIAAI000361)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD042854)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Keywords
- mobile health, HIV care, mobile telephony, community health workers, virological failure, rural health care, privacy concerns, health worker support, Uganda
- MeSH terms
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Communication, Community Health Services, Female, Health Personnel, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Peer Group, Rural Population, Uganda, Cluster Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Telemedicine, Anti-HIV Agents, Cell Phone
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