Community-based maternal, newborn, and child health surveillance: perceptions and attitudes of local stakeholders towards using mobile phone by village health volunteers in the Kenge Health Zone, Democratic Republic of Congo

The objective of this study was to determine the perceptions of households, attitudes of community health volunteers, and opinions of nurses in health centres and administrative authorities towards the use of mobile phones for MNCH surveillance in the rural KHZ in the DRC. Mobile phones were perceived as devices that render quick services for people who needed help; and the community’s attitudes towards the mobile phone use for collection of data, analysis, and use activities were good. Although some of community members did not see a direct linkage between this surveillance approach and health benefits, majority believed that there would be better MNCH services with the use of mobile phones.

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Diese M, Kalonji A, Izale B, Villeneuve S, Kintaudi N, Clarysse G, Ngongo N, Ntambue A. Community-based maternal, new-born, and child health surveillance: perceptions and attitudes of local stakeholders towards using mobile phone by village health volunteers in the Kenge Health Zone, Democratic Republic of Congo. BMC Public Health. 2018; 18(316). doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5186-2