Mobile health technology to improve maternal health awareness in tribal populations: Mobile for mothers

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Abstract

Mobile health (mHealth) applications have the potential to improve health awareness. This study reports a quasi-controlled intervention to augment maternal health awareness among tribal pregnant mothers through the mHealth application. Households from 2 independent villages with similar socio-demographics in tribal regions of India were selected as intervention (Village A) and control group (Village B). The control group received government mandated programs through traditional means (orally), whereas the intervention group received the same education through mHealth utilization. Postintervention, awareness about tetanus injections and consumption of iron tablets was significantly (P

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Choudhury, A., Asan, O., & Choudhury, M. M. (2021). Mobile health technology to improve maternal health awareness in tribal populations: Mobile for mothers. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28(11), 2467–2474. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab172

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