| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 020396 |
| Journal | Journal of global health |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2020 |
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- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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In: Journal of global health, Vol. 10, No. 2, 020396, 12.2020.
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T1 - Factors influencing the sustainability of digital health interventions in low-resource settings
T2 - Lessons from five countries
AU - McCool, Judith
AU - Dobson, Rosie
AU - Muinga, Naomi
AU - Paton, Chris
AU - Pagliari, Claudia
AU - Agawal, Smisha
AU - Labrique, Alain
AU - Tanielu, Helen
AU - Whittaker, Robyn
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgements?>The authors wish to thank the various individuals and organisations that contributed to and funded the digital health initiatives that this paper has been based upon.?>Funding: None.?>Author contributions: All authors contributed to the viewpoint themes, structure and revisions. The concept of the viewpoint paper was proposed at a collaborative symposium involving all authors either in person, online and subsequently in content.?>Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest. Funding Information: A text message-based smoking cessation programme to support smokers in India to quit was established in 2015. It was part of the World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Be He@lthy Be Mobile programme which also included the support from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. The rationale for using a text message-based programme to promote smoking cessation was based on two key factors: an unacceptably high rate of tobacco related mortality and morbidity and an exponentially increasing rate of mobile phone use. A mCessation programme was adapted culturally and linguistically for dissemination to smokers and smokeless tobacco users in India. The initiative attracted multisector support. Early, high uptake of the programme (180 000 registered users in the first month) was reassuring. However, it became evident that method of recruitment (via phone-call) was erroneously recruiting never-smokers and people who were unsure of what they had been registered for. Despite recruitment errors, the programme was deemed feasible and effective with a 19% quit rate (no tobacco for past 30 days at 4-6 month, unvalidated). there was evidence of strong cross-sectoral support from across various government organisations. This programme has since been updated to include regional language and voice-based response system to reflect population diversity.
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JO - Journal of global health
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