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Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: The postnatal period implies a crucial and delicate time for both the mother and the newborn. There is a growing body of evidence that is increasingly pointing to mHealth interventions as a potential tool for improved utilisation of maternal and child health services, including postnatal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36384530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05177-x |
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author | Olajubu, Aanuoluwapo Omobolanle Fajemilehin, Boluwaji Reuben Olajubu, Temitope Oluwafemi |
author_facet | Olajubu, Aanuoluwapo Omobolanle Fajemilehin, Boluwaji Reuben Olajubu, Temitope Oluwafemi |
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description | BACKGROUND: The postnatal period implies a crucial and delicate time for both the mother and the newborn. There is a growing body of evidence that is increasingly pointing to mHealth interventions as a potential tool for improved utilisation of maternal and child health services, including postnatal care. This can promote the health of mother and baby during this delicate period. However, the success of the interventions must be explored to validate their usefulness and reliability. Hence, this study explored the experiences of postpartum women on the usefulness of the mHealth intervention (postnatal care assistant) they received. METHODS: Twenty women, who were involved in mHealth intervention were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. They were recruited from the intervention group of a quasi-experimental study that evaluated the effect of a mHealth intervention on the uptake of postnatal care services. Thematic analysis of data was done using NVivo software version 10. RESULTS: Five major themes emerged from data shared by the participants. They are general feelings about the messages, benefits derived from the messages about pregnancy and hospital delivery, increased knowledge about baby care, facilitation of PNC utilisation and involvement of significant others in decision making. They affirmed that the information and reminder messages gave them the impetus to utilise postnatal care services. CONCLUSION: Mothers reported that mHealth intervention provided immense support and assistance during pregnancy and the reminder messages encouraged them to utilise postnatal care services. This study suggests that improved education and reminder messages via mobile phones are needed during pregnancy and after childbirth to promote mother and child health through the utilization of postnatal care services, and efforts to put this approach to action should be pursued. |
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spelling | pubmed-96704772022-11-18 Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study Olajubu, Aanuoluwapo Omobolanle Fajemilehin, Boluwaji Reuben Olajubu, Temitope Oluwafemi BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research BACKGROUND: The postnatal period implies a crucial and delicate time for both the mother and the newborn. There is a growing body of evidence that is increasingly pointing to mHealth interventions as a potential tool for improved utilisation of maternal and child health services, including postnatal care. This can promote the health of mother and baby during this delicate period. However, the success of the interventions must be explored to validate their usefulness and reliability. Hence, this study explored the experiences of postpartum women on the usefulness of the mHealth intervention (postnatal care assistant) they received. METHODS: Twenty women, who were involved in mHealth intervention were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. They were recruited from the intervention group of a quasi-experimental study that evaluated the effect of a mHealth intervention on the uptake of postnatal care services. Thematic analysis of data was done using NVivo software version 10. RESULTS: Five major themes emerged from data shared by the participants. They are general feelings about the messages, benefits derived from the messages about pregnancy and hospital delivery, increased knowledge about baby care, facilitation of PNC utilisation and involvement of significant others in decision making. They affirmed that the information and reminder messages gave them the impetus to utilise postnatal care services. CONCLUSION: Mothers reported that mHealth intervention provided immense support and assistance during pregnancy and the reminder messages encouraged them to utilise postnatal care services. This study suggests that improved education and reminder messages via mobile phones are needed during pregnancy and after childbirth to promote mother and child health through the utilization of postnatal care services, and efforts to put this approach to action should be pursued. BioMed Central 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9670477/ /pubmed/36384530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05177-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Olajubu, Aanuoluwapo Omobolanle Fajemilehin, Boluwaji Reuben Olajubu, Temitope Oluwafemi Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title | Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title_full | Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title_short | Mothers’ experiences with mHealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in Nigeria: a qualitative study |
title_sort | mothers’ experiences with mhealth intervention for postnatal care utilisation in nigeria: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36384530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05177-x |
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