Mobile Phone Messaging to Husbands to Improve Maternal and Child Health Behavior in India
Mobile Phone Messaging to Husbands to Improve Maternal and Child Health Behavior in India
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10.1080/10810730.2018.1483444
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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4.4
通讯作者：
Mondal, Subrato Kumar
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作者：
Hazra, Avishek;Khan, M. E.;Mondal, Subrato Kumar
在印度人口最多的北方邦，超过90%的农村家庭至少拥有一部手机。然而，女性的手机拥有率相当低。在北方邦进行了实施研究，以审查(a)向丈夫的移动电话提供有关选定的妇幼保健行为的信息是否会提高男子的知识并引起其家庭的讨论，以及(b)这种讨论是否有助于采用健康做法。移动保健干预措施包括每两周用当地语言（印地语）向孕妇丈夫的手机发送关于妇幼保健主题的语音信息。2014年，在移动健康干预四个月后，采用准实验设计，对研究地区的881名丈夫和956名女性进行了采访。在控制了其社会人口统计学特征后，丈夫的知识在信息听众中明显高于非听众。多因素logistic回归分析表明，如果丈夫与家庭成员讨论信息，妻子在三种行为中实践健康行为的几率显著提高。其中包括妊娠最后三个月的一次产前检查(优势比1.72,p
Over 90% of households in rural Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India, have at least one mobile phone. However, ownership of mobile phone among women is quite low. Implementation research was conducted in Uttar Pradesh to examine (a) whether providing information on selected maternal and child health (MCH) behaviors to a husband's mobile phone would enhance the man's knowledge and lead to discussions in their family, and (b) whether such discussions would help in the adoption of healthy practices. The m-Health intervention included biweekly voice messages in local language (Hindi) on MCH topics to the mobile phone of pregnant women's husbands. Using a quasi-experimental design, after four months of the m-Health intervention, in 2014, 881 husbands and 956 women from the study area were interviewed. Husbands' knowledge, controlling for their socio-demographic characteristics, were significantly higher among the listeners of the messages than the non-listeners. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that if husbands discussed the messages with family members, the odds of wives' practicing health behaviors improved significantly for three behaviors. These include one antenatal checkup in last trimester of pregnancy (odds ratio 1.72, p