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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Date Submitted: May 9, 2019
Date Accepted: Jun 27, 2019

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

The Elusive Path Toward Measuring Health Outcomes: Lessons Learned From a Pseudo-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Large-Scale Mobile Health Initiative

Mechael P, Kaonga NN, Chandrasekharan S, Muthuperumal P, Peter J, Ganju A, Murthy N

The Elusive Path Toward Measuring Health Outcomes: Lessons Learned From a Pseudo-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Large-Scale Mobile Health Initiative

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(8):e14668

DOI: 10.2196/14668

PMID: 31436165

PMCID: 6724498

The elusive path towards measuring health outcomes: Lessons learned from a pseudo-randomized controlled trial of a large-scale mHealth initiative

  • Patricia Mechael; 
  • Nadi Nina Kaonga; 
  • Subhashini Chandrasekharan; 
  • Prakash Muthuperumal; 
  • Joanne Peter; 
  • Aakash Ganju; 
  • Nirmala Murthy

ABSTRACT

Mobile health (mHealth) offers new opportunities to improve access to health services and health information. It also presents new challenges in evaluating its impact, particularly in linking the use of a technology intervention that aims to improve health behaviors with the health outcomes that are impacted by changed behaviors. The availability of data from a multitude of sources (paper-based and electronic) provide the conditions to facilitate making stronger connections between self-reported data and clinical outcomes. This commentary paper shares lessons and important considerations based on the experience of applying new research frameworks and incorporating maternal and child health records data into a pseudo-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of mMitra, a stage-based voice messaging program to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes, in urban slums in India.


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Mechael P, Kaonga NN, Chandrasekharan S, Muthuperumal P, Peter J, Ganju A, Murthy N

The Elusive Path Toward Measuring Health Outcomes: Lessons Learned From a Pseudo-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Large-Scale Mobile Health Initiative

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(8):e14668

DOI: 10.2196/14668

PMID: 31436165

PMCID: 6724498

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