1. Assessing the reliability of phone surveys to measure reproductive, maternal and child health knowledge among pregnant women in rural India: a feasibility study
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Nicki Tiffin, Rajani Ved, Alain Labrique, Diva Dhar, Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre, Kerry Scott, Smisha Agarwal, Nicola Mulder, Neha Shah, Diwakar Mohan, Simone Honikman, Sara Chamberlain, Salil Arora, Jai Mendiratta, Sai Rahul, Osama Ummer, Aarushi Bhatanagar, Rakesh Chandra, Arpita Chakraborty, Neha Dumke, Priyanka Dutt, Anna Godfrey, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Nayan Kumar, Amnesty LeFevre, Molly Miller, Radharani Mitra, Deshen Moodley, Angela Ng, Dilip Parida, Nehru Penugonda, Shiv Rajput, Aashaka Shinde, Aaditya Singh, Falyn Weiss, Sonia Whitehead, Aarushi Bhatnagar, and Jean J H Bashingwa
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Medicine - Abstract
Objectives Efforts to understand the factors influencing the uptake of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (RMNCH&N) services in high disease burden low-resource settings have often focused on face-to-face surveys or direct observations of service delivery. Increasing access to mobile phones has led to growing interest in phone surveys as a rapid, low-cost alternatives to face-to-face surveys. We assess determinants of RMNCH&N knowledge among pregnant women with access to phones and examine the reliability of alternative modalities of survey delivery.Participants Women 5–7 months pregnant with access to a phone.Setting Four districts of Madhya Pradesh, India.Design Cross-sectional surveys administered face-to-face and within 2 weeks, the same surveys were repeated among two random subsamples of the original sample: face-to-face (n=205) and caller-attended telephone interviews (n=375). Bivariate analyses, multivariable linear regression, and prevalence and bias-adjusted kappa scores are presented.Results Knowledge scores were low across domains: 52% for maternal nutrition and pregnancy danger signs, 58% for family planning, 47% for essential newborn care, 56% infant and young child feeding, and 58% for infant and young child care. Higher knowledge (≥1 composite score) was associated with older age; higher levels of education and literacy; living in a nuclear family; primary health decision-making; greater attendance in antenatal care and satisfaction with accredited social health activist services. Survey questions had low inter-rater and intermodal reliability (kappa
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- 2022
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