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Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities

The conventional paper-based system for malaria surveillance is time-consuming, difficult to track and resource-intensive. Few digital platforms are in use but wide-scale deployment and acceptability remain to be seen. To address this issue, we created a malaria surveillance mobile app that offers r...

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Autores principales: Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti, Gohain, Gunenja Gobinda, Goswami, Santanu Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Dibya Ranjan, Debnath, Sudhanshu Hari Das, Panat, Lakshmi, Karajkhede, Ganesh, Mohapatra, Pradyumna K., Sarma, Devojit Kumar, Bhowmick, Ipsita Pal, Gogoi, Kongkona, Biswas, Sujit, Debnath, Jayanta, Acharjee, Sukanta, Senapati, Susmita, Neog, Rahul, Nath, Prabal, Meitei, Keisham, Baidya, Subrata, Debbarma, Dinesh, Sarma, Ajit, Ahmed, Rahim A., Boro, Hemkanta, Das, Rubal Chandra, Mahanta, Jagadish, Debbarma, Satya Ranjan, Kaur, Harpreet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8909168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270256
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052561
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author Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti
Gohain, Gunenja Gobinda
Goswami, Santanu Kumar
Bhattacharyya, Dibya Ranjan
Debnath, Sudhanshu Hari Das
Panat, Lakshmi
Karajkhede, Ganesh
Mohapatra, Pradyumna K.
Sarma, Devojit Kumar
Bhowmick, Ipsita Pal
Gogoi, Kongkona
Biswas, Sujit
Debnath, Jayanta
Acharjee, Sukanta
Senapati, Susmita
Neog, Rahul
Nath, Prabal
Meitei, Keisham
Baidya, Subrata
Debbarma, Dinesh
Sarma, Ajit
Ahmed, Rahim A.
Boro, Hemkanta
Das, Rubal Chandra
Mahanta, Jagadish
Debbarma, Satya Ranjan
Kaur, Harpreet
author_facet Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti
Gohain, Gunenja Gobinda
Goswami, Santanu Kumar
Bhattacharyya, Dibya Ranjan
Debnath, Sudhanshu Hari Das
Panat, Lakshmi
Karajkhede, Ganesh
Mohapatra, Pradyumna K.
Sarma, Devojit Kumar
Bhowmick, Ipsita Pal
Gogoi, Kongkona
Biswas, Sujit
Debnath, Jayanta
Acharjee, Sukanta
Senapati, Susmita
Neog, Rahul
Nath, Prabal
Meitei, Keisham
Baidya, Subrata
Debbarma, Dinesh
Sarma, Ajit
Ahmed, Rahim A.
Boro, Hemkanta
Das, Rubal Chandra
Mahanta, Jagadish
Debbarma, Satya Ranjan
Kaur, Harpreet
author_sort Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti
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description The conventional paper-based system for malaria surveillance is time-consuming, difficult to track and resource-intensive. Few digital platforms are in use but wide-scale deployment and acceptability remain to be seen. To address this issue, we created a malaria surveillance mobile app that offers real-time data to stakeholders and establishes a centralised data repository. The MoSQuIT app was designed to collect data from the field and was integrated with a web-based platform for data integration and analysis. The MoSQuIT app was deployed on mobile phones of accredited social health activists (ASHA) working in international border villages in the northeast (NE) Indian states of Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh for 20 months in a phased manner. This paper shares the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of MoSQuIT for malaria surveillance. MoSQuIT employs the same data entry formats as the NVBDCP’s malaria surveillance programme. Using this app, a total of 8221 fever cases were recorded, which included 1192 (14.5%) cases of P. falciparum malaria, 280 (3.4%) cases of P. vivax malaria and 52 (0.6%) mixed infection cases. Depending on network availability, GPS coordinates of the fever cases were acquired by the app. The present study demonstrated that mobile-phone-based malaria surveillance facilitates the quick transmission of data from the field to decision makers. Geospatial tagging of cases helped with easy visualisation of the case distribution for the identification of malaria-prone areas and potential outbreaks, especially in hilly and remote regions of Northeast India. However, to achieve the full operational potential of the system, operational challenges have to be overcome.
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spelling pubmed-89091682022-03-11 Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti Gohain, Gunenja Gobinda Goswami, Santanu Kumar Bhattacharyya, Dibya Ranjan Debnath, Sudhanshu Hari Das Panat, Lakshmi Karajkhede, Ganesh Mohapatra, Pradyumna K. Sarma, Devojit Kumar Bhowmick, Ipsita Pal Gogoi, Kongkona Biswas, Sujit Debnath, Jayanta Acharjee, Sukanta Senapati, Susmita Neog, Rahul Nath, Prabal Meitei, Keisham Baidya, Subrata Debbarma, Dinesh Sarma, Ajit Ahmed, Rahim A. Boro, Hemkanta Das, Rubal Chandra Mahanta, Jagadish Debbarma, Satya Ranjan Kaur, Harpreet Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The conventional paper-based system for malaria surveillance is time-consuming, difficult to track and resource-intensive. Few digital platforms are in use but wide-scale deployment and acceptability remain to be seen. To address this issue, we created a malaria surveillance mobile app that offers real-time data to stakeholders and establishes a centralised data repository. The MoSQuIT app was designed to collect data from the field and was integrated with a web-based platform for data integration and analysis. The MoSQuIT app was deployed on mobile phones of accredited social health activists (ASHA) working in international border villages in the northeast (NE) Indian states of Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh for 20 months in a phased manner. This paper shares the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of MoSQuIT for malaria surveillance. MoSQuIT employs the same data entry formats as the NVBDCP’s malaria surveillance programme. Using this app, a total of 8221 fever cases were recorded, which included 1192 (14.5%) cases of P. falciparum malaria, 280 (3.4%) cases of P. vivax malaria and 52 (0.6%) mixed infection cases. Depending on network availability, GPS coordinates of the fever cases were acquired by the app. The present study demonstrated that mobile-phone-based malaria surveillance facilitates the quick transmission of data from the field to decision makers. Geospatial tagging of cases helped with easy visualisation of the case distribution for the identification of malaria-prone areas and potential outbreaks, especially in hilly and remote regions of Northeast India. However, to achieve the full operational potential of the system, operational challenges have to be overcome. MDPI 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8909168/ /pubmed/35270256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052561 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti
Gohain, Gunenja Gobinda
Goswami, Santanu Kumar
Bhattacharyya, Dibya Ranjan
Debnath, Sudhanshu Hari Das
Panat, Lakshmi
Karajkhede, Ganesh
Mohapatra, Pradyumna K.
Sarma, Devojit Kumar
Bhowmick, Ipsita Pal
Gogoi, Kongkona
Biswas, Sujit
Debnath, Jayanta
Acharjee, Sukanta
Senapati, Susmita
Neog, Rahul
Nath, Prabal
Meitei, Keisham
Baidya, Subrata
Debbarma, Dinesh
Sarma, Ajit
Ahmed, Rahim A.
Boro, Hemkanta
Das, Rubal Chandra
Mahanta, Jagadish
Debbarma, Satya Ranjan
Kaur, Harpreet
Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title_full Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title_fullStr Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title_full_unstemmed Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title_short Development and On-Field Deployment of a Mobile-Based Application ‘MoSQuIT’ for Malaria Surveillance in International Border Districts of Northeast India—Challenges and Opportunities
title_sort development and on-field deployment of a mobile-based application ‘mosquit’ for malaria surveillance in international border districts of northeast india—challenges and opportunities
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8909168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270256
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052561
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