"Even if you know everything you can forget": health worker perceptions of mobile phone text-messaging to improve malaria case-management in Kenya.

Journal article

This paper presents the results of a qualitative study to investigate the perceptions and experiences of health workers involved in a a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a novel intervention to improve health worker malaria case-management in 107 government health facilities in Kenya. The intervention involved sending text-messages about paediatric outpatient malaria case-management accompanied by "motivating" quotes to health workers' mobile phones. Ten malaria messages were developed r...

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Authors: Jones, C; Wasunna, B; Sudoi, R; Githinji, S; Snow, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: PloS one
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 6
• Pages: e38636
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038636
• EISSN: 1932-6203
• ISSN: 1932-6203
• Language: English
• Keywords: Health Personnel; Ethanolamines; Attitude of Health Personnel; Text Messaging; Humans; Fluorenes; Kenya; Artemisinins; Drug Combinations; Antimalarials; Malaria