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Healthcare workers' perceptions about the use of mobile health technologies in public health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria.
Shekoni, Oluwatobi; Iversen, Synne; Diaz, Gabriela J; Aune, Anders; Ubuane, Peter Odion; Imam, Zainab; André, Beate.
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  • Shekoni O; Department of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
  • Iversen S; Department of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
  • Diaz GJ; Department of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
  • Aune A; Picterus AS, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Ubuane PO; Department of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
  • Imam Z; Picterus AS, Trondheim, Norway.
  • André B; Department of Pediatrics, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria.
SAGE Open Med ; 12: 20503121231224568, 2024.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38347851
ABSTRACT

Background:

Mobile health has enormous potential in healthcare due to the increasing use of mobile phones in low- and middle-income countries; its effective deployment, uptake, and utilization may result in improved health outcomes, including a reduction in neonatal deaths. However, there is a suboptimal uptake of mobile health technologies among healthcare workers in low-resource settings like Nigeria, which are often context-specific.

Objective:

To investigate healthcare workers' perceptions of mobile health technologies in public health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria.

Method:

A qualitative study was conducted, and data were collected through six focus group discussions with 26 healthcare workers (doctors, nurses, and community health extension workers) from three public health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria. The collected data were analyzed using a thematic approach, where themes and subthemes were created.

Results:

Although the participants acknowledged that mobile health enhances patient-provider communication and saves time, they identified altering of healthcare workers' routine practices, information overload, power and network failure, skepticism, lack of trust, and concerns over diagnostic accuracy as potential barriers to its uptake.

Conclusion:

Addressing healthcare workers' perceptions of mobile health technologies may enhance the deployment and uptake of such solutions in Nigeria and similar low-resource settings. Developers and implementers of such can use them to create new or enhance existing mobile health solutions to better meet the needs and requirements of healthcare workers in low- to middle-income health settings, such as Lagos, Nigeria.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Qualitative_research Idioma: En Revista: SAGE Open Med Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Noruega Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Qualitative_research Idioma: En Revista: SAGE Open Med Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Noruega Pais de publicación: Reino Unido