Do Women in Nepal Like Playing a Mobile Game? MANTRA: A Mobile Gamified App for Improving Healthcare Seeking Behavior in Rural Nepal.
Do Women in Nepal Like Playing a Mobile Game? MANTRA: A Mobile Gamified App for Improving Healthcare Seeking Behavior in Rural Nepal.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpubh.2021.645837
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Kostkova P
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文献类型：
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作者：
Kayastha R;Mueller S;Yadav P;Kelman I;Boscor A;Saville N;Arjyal A;Baral S;Fordham M;Hearn G;Kostkova P
在低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC），孕产妇和儿童死亡的原因之一是缺乏医疗知识，因此无法及时寻求医疗保健。由于移动的电话的普及和网络覆盖，移动的健康（mHealth）技术正逐渐成为地球仪通用的干预平台。MANTRA是一种新颖的移动健康干预措施，旨在通过尼泊尔农村的一种严肃的移动的游戏应用程序解决孕产妇和儿童健康问题，该应用程序显示农村妇女的知识在统计上有了显著提高。本文探讨了尼泊尔农村妇女和女性社区卫生志愿者（FCHVs）对MANTRA应用程序的看法和可用性。尽管目标用户群的教育水平有限，智能手机使用经验较低，但所有参与者都对MANTRA应用程序表示认可和热情。他们愿意进一步参与移动健康干预，并与社区成员分享他们的经验和知识。参与者对危险信号的认识也有所提高，使他们能够在未来做出更明智的健康决定。FCHV将该应用程序视为验证工具，为他们在尼泊尔农村地区的努力产生更大影响提供支持。移动移动的拥有率、网络覆盖率和智能手机可用性的增加，沿着农村社区接受MANTRA应用程序原型的情况表明，尼泊尔和其他中低收入国家将移动保健干预措施纳入国家卫生基础设施的前景令人鼓舞。
In Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), one of the causes of maternal and child mortality is a lack of medical knowledge and consequently the inability to seek timely healthcare. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is gradually becoming a universal intervention platform across the globe due to ubiquity of mobile phones and network coverage. MANTRA is a novel mHealth intervention developed to tackle maternal and child health issues through a serious mobile game app in rural Nepal, which demonstrated a statistically significant knowledge improvement in rural women. This paper explores the perceptions and usability of the MANTRA app amongst rural women and Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal. Despite the challenges of a target user group with limited educational levels and low smartphone experience, all participants viewed the MANTRA app with approval and enthusiasm. They were willing to engage further with the mHealth intervention and to share their experience and knowledge with fellow community members. Participants also showed an increase in awareness of danger signs enabling them to make better informed health decisions in the future. FCHVs viewed the app as a validation tool providing and support for greater impact of their efforts in rural Nepal. Growing mobile ownership, network coverage and availability of smartphones along with acceptance of the prototype MANTRA app in rural communities suggest encouraging prospects for mHealth interventions to be incorporated in the national health infrastructure in Nepal and other LMICs.
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