Previously submitted to: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (no longer under consideration since Apr 28, 2022)
Date Submitted: May 4, 2021
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Midwives' Acceptance of Using mHealth to Improve Data Quality of a Maternal and Child Health Program
ABSTRACT
Background:
Maternal and child health (MCH) remains an important agenda item in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unfortunately, despite strong commitments, the maternal mortality ratio in Indonesia remains high. Program performance, particularly good midwife performance, is the main factor that can reduce the maternal mortality ratio. Improving midwife performance must be supported by the availability of data or evidence. However, midwives still experience problems with data collection in the MCH program.
Objective:
This study aimed to strengthen the quality of maternal and child health (MCH) data produced by mHealth.
Methods:
Three research avenues were evaluated: a) ensuring quality data are produced, b) building mHealth to fit the needs of midwives so that mHealth is acceptable to midwives, and c) identifying challenges midwives face when using mHealth
Results:
The MCH data generated by mHealth met the data quality criteria consisting of data completeness, correctness, currentness, and consistency. Midwives in the villages showed enthusiasm for using mHealth and accepted the mHealth which is supports their daily work. One of the challenges of using mHealth is the lack of integration with the Community Health Center information system.
Conclusions:
The mHealth system produces quality data that can improve the current poor data quality, and this application can be easily used by midwives. The midwives generally accepted the application and agreed that mHealth helps with their daily work in MCH services Clinical Trial: This research has obtained ethical permission from the ethics commission of the Public Health Faculty Universitas Indonesia register number 477/UN2.F10/PPM.00.02/2019.
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