An mHealth Model to Increase Clinic Attendance for Breast Symptoms in Rural Bangladesh: Can Bridging the Digital Divide Help Close the Cancer Divide?
Summary. A randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh tested a smartphone application to help community health workers identify women with breast symptoms and encourage clinic attendance. Community health workers using the smartphone app identified more abnormal cases than paper-based controls. Adding patient navigation training to the smartphone app achieved the highest clinic attendance rates, demonstrating that digital tools combined with navigation support effectively increase healthcare-seeking behavior for breast cancer symptoms in rural areas.
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Ginsburg, O., Chowdhury, M., Wu, W., Chowdhury, M., Pal, B. C., Hasan, R. A., Khan, Z. H., Dutta, D., Saeem, A. A., Al-Mansur, R., Mahmud, S., Woods, J. H., Story, H. H., & Salim, R.. (2014). An mHealth Model to Increase Clinic Attendance for Breast Symptoms in Rural Bangladesh: Can Bridging the Digital Divide Help Close the Cancer Divide?. The Oncologist. https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0314
Ginsburg, Ophira, et al. “An mHealth Model to Increase Clinic Attendance for Breast Symptoms in Rural Bangladesh: Can Bridging the Digital Divide Help Close the Cancer Divide?.” The Oncologist, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0314.
Ginsburg, Ophira, Mridul Chowdhury, Wei Wu, M. Chowdhury, Bidhan Chandra Pal, Rifat Afifa Hasan, Zahid Hasan Khan, et al.. 2014. “An mHealth Model to Increase Clinic Attendance for Breast Symptoms in Rural Bangladesh: Can Bridging the Digital Divide Help Close the Cancer Divide?.” The Oncologist. https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0314.
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title = {An mHealth Model to Increase Clinic Attendance for Breast Symptoms in Rural Bangladesh: Can Bridging the Digital Divide Help Close the Cancer Divide?},
author = {Ophira Ginsburg and Mridul Chowdhury and Wei Wu and M. Chowdhury and Bidhan Chandra Pal and Rifat Afifa Hasan and Zahid Hasan Khan and Dali Dutta and Arif Abu Saeem and Raiyan Al-Mansur and Sahin Mahmud and James H. Woods and Heather H. Story and Reza Salim},
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- 10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0314
- Countries
- Bangladesh
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- Asia
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- rural-healthcare, broadband-and-digital
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