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Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India
OBJECTIVE: To determine the acceptability of keeping a self-written health diary among members of low-income communities, with the aim of generating needed health data. METHODS: We identified three different types of impoverished communities (tribal, inner-city slum and rural) in north India, and co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34108755 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.264325 |
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author | Kumar, Neeta Adhikari, Tulsi Singh, Jiten Kh Tiwari, Nidhi Acharya, Anita S |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To determine the acceptability of keeping a self-written health diary among members of low-income communities, with the aim of generating needed health data. METHODS: We identified three different types of impoverished communities (tribal, inner-city slum and rural) in north India, and conducted a baseline survey to establish the sociodemographic properties of the members of 595 (tribal), 446 (slum) and 51 (rural) households. We designed health diaries with a single page to fill in per month, each with a carbon duplicate, and distributed diaries to willing participants. Health volunteers visited households each month to assist with diary completion and to collect duplicate pages for a period of one year. We compared the frequency of illnesses reported in health diaries with baseline survey data. FINDINGS: A total of 4881 diary users (tribal: 2205; slum: 2185; rural: 491) participated in our project. In terms of acceptability, 49.6% (1093/2205), 64.7% (1413/2185) and 79.0% (388/491) at the tribal, slum and rural sites, respectively, expressed satisfaction with the scheme and a willingness to continue. In the tribal and slum areas, we observed increased reporting of illnesses from health diaries when compared with baseline data. We observed that influenza-like illnesses were reported with the highest frequency of 58.9% (2972/5044) at the tribal site. CONCLUSION: We observed high levels of acceptability and participation among the communities. From our initial field studies, we have observed the benefits to both our study participants (timely preventive education and referrals) and to service providers (obtaining health data to allow improved planning). |
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spelling | pubmed-81641792021-06-08 Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India Kumar, Neeta Adhikari, Tulsi Singh, Jiten Kh Tiwari, Nidhi Acharya, Anita S Bull World Health Organ Research OBJECTIVE: To determine the acceptability of keeping a self-written health diary among members of low-income communities, with the aim of generating needed health data. METHODS: We identified three different types of impoverished communities (tribal, inner-city slum and rural) in north India, and conducted a baseline survey to establish the sociodemographic properties of the members of 595 (tribal), 446 (slum) and 51 (rural) households. We designed health diaries with a single page to fill in per month, each with a carbon duplicate, and distributed diaries to willing participants. Health volunteers visited households each month to assist with diary completion and to collect duplicate pages for a period of one year. We compared the frequency of illnesses reported in health diaries with baseline survey data. FINDINGS: A total of 4881 diary users (tribal: 2205; slum: 2185; rural: 491) participated in our project. In terms of acceptability, 49.6% (1093/2205), 64.7% (1413/2185) and 79.0% (388/491) at the tribal, slum and rural sites, respectively, expressed satisfaction with the scheme and a willingness to continue. In the tribal and slum areas, we observed increased reporting of illnesses from health diaries when compared with baseline data. We observed that influenza-like illnesses were reported with the highest frequency of 58.9% (2972/5044) at the tribal site. CONCLUSION: We observed high levels of acceptability and participation among the communities. From our initial field studies, we have observed the benefits to both our study participants (timely preventive education and referrals) and to service providers (obtaining health data to allow improved planning). World Health Organization 2021-06-01 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8164179/ /pubmed/34108755 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.264325 Text en (c) 2021 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL. |
spellingShingle | Research Kumar, Neeta Adhikari, Tulsi Singh, Jiten Kh Tiwari, Nidhi Acharya, Anita S Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title | Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title_full | Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title_fullStr | Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title_full_unstemmed | Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title_short | Health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north India |
title_sort | health data from diaries used in low-income communities, north india |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34108755 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.264325 |
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