Augmenting caregiver in-home safety practices via mHealth: A randomized controlled trial
Centre for Injury Prevention and Community Safety (CIPCS), PeerCorps Trust Fund, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Emergency and Critical Care, Epidemiology, Global Health, Pediatrics, Public Health
- Keywords
- Injury, Under fives, Home health, mHealth, Epidemiology
- Copyright
- © 2016 L. Wilson et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Augmenting caregiver in-home safety practices via mHealth: A randomized controlled trial. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2330v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2330v2
Abstract
Unintentional injuries among under-fives represent an important cause of preventable morbidity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In-home interventions targeting caregiver safety practices currently show promise in reducing household injury risks. Mobile health (mHealth) is emerging as a potentially cost effective platform for the delivery of critical health information in resource poor settings. The goal of this project is to introduce an mHealth intervention targeting risk factors for child burn injuries in Dar es Salaam.
Author Comment
Changes to the design of the study and elaboration of the control group were made.