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Abstract
IntroductionEvery 90 seconds, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, resulting in more than 340,000 maternal deaths a year. Antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) are significant determinants of maternal health and, particularly, safe motherhood. Antenatal care is an important predictor of safe delivery and provides health information and services that can improve the health of women and infants. mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery systems. This study aimed at assessing the acceptable implementation modalities of mHealth intervention on pregnant Women in Dschang health district, West Region of Cameroon.ng ba.MethodsThis was a cross sectional descriptive study in the Dschang health district, West region of Cameroon. Key informants were all pregnant women from 18 years and above and a total of 372 pregnant women were included. This study was carried out from March to July 2017.ResultsMajority of the women, that is, 252(67.74%) were married, 117(31.45%) declaredtheir status as being single, while 3(0.81%) were devorced. Out of the 335 women that declared wanting an mHealth intervention, 41.79% of this number preferred SMS texts in the afternoon, 111(33.13%) in the evening, 46(13.73%) anytime and 38(11.34%) in the morning hours. A total of 83.33% women confirmed using telephone services.ConclusionThis study reveals that cell phones would be the acceptable medium of providing pregnancy and postpartum support to women in the Dschang health district. This is justified by the fact that a vast majority of women interviewed had access to a cell phone and referred to it as their desired and accepted means of communication.
Highlights
The term mHealth was coined by Robert Istepanian as use of "emerging mobile communications and network technologies for healthcare." A definition used at the 2010 mHealth Summit of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) was "the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices," [3]. mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery systems [4]
Antenatal care is an important predictor of safe delivery and provides health information and services that can improve the health of women and infants [2]
Antenatal care (ANC) has a positive impact on the utilization of postnatal healthcare services, while postnatal care (PNC) and intrapartum care significantly reduces maternal mortality given that most maternal deaths occur in the first week after delivery [2]
Summary
MHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery systems [1]. The field broadly incorporates the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies in health care delivery [2]. The term mHealth was coined by Robert Istepanian as use of "emerging mobile communications and network technologies for healthcare." A definition used at the 2010 mHealth Summit of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) was "the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices," [3]. The field broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies in health care delivery [5]. A definition used at the 2010 mHealth Summit of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) was "the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices" [1]. ANC has a positive impact on the utilization of postnatal healthcare services, while PNC and intrapartum (the period from the onset of labour to the end of the third stage of labour) care significantly reduces maternal mortality given that most maternal deaths occur in the first week after delivery [2]
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