Concordance between GPS-based smartphone app for continuous location tracking and mother’s recall of care-seeking for child illness in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19551284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siddhivinayak Hirve (0000-0002-9651-7789, Emergent BioSolutions (Canada)), Andrew Marsh (0000-0001-8845-3562, Johns Hopkins University), Pallavi Lele, Uddhavi Chavan, Tathagata Bhattacharjee (0000-0001-9437-0894, Indepth Network), Harish Nair (0000-0002-9432-9100, University of Edinburgh), Harry Campbell (0000-0002-6169-6262, Emergent BioSolutions (Canada)), Sanjay Juvekar (0000-0002-7209-6924, Indepth Network) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 020802-020802 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-2978 • E-ISSN: 2047-2986 |
| Publisher | International Society of Global Health (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7189/jogh.08.020802 |
| PMID | 30410742 |
| OpenAlex | W2891312217 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 40 |
BACKGROUND: Traditionally, health care-seeking behaviour for child illness is assessed through population-based national demographic and health surveys. GPS-based technologies are increasingly used in human behavioural research including tracking human mobility and spatial behaviour. This paper assesses how well a care-seeking event to a health care facility for child illness, as recalled by the mother in a survey setting using questions sourced from Demographic and Health Surveys, concurs with one that is identified by TrackCare, a GPS-based location-aware smartphone application. METHODS: Mothers residing in the Vadu HDSS area in Pune district, India having at least one young child were randomly assigned to receive a GPS-enabled smartphone with a pre-installed TrackCare app configured to record the device location data at one-minute intervals over a 6-month period. Spatio-temporal parameters were derived from the location data and used to detect a care-seeking event to any of the health care facilities in the area. Mothers were asked to recall a child illness and if, where and when care was sought, using a questionnaire during monthly visits over a 6-month period. Concordance between the mother's recall and the TrackCare app to identify a care-seeking event was estimated according to percent positive agreement. RESULTS: -value <0.001) compared to those not reported by mother but detected by TrackCare. CONCLUSIONS: Given the uncertainty and limitations in use of continuous location tracking data in a field setting and the complexity of classifying human activity patterns, additional research is needed before continuous location tracking can serve as a gold standard substitute for other methods to determine health care-seeking behaviour. Future performance may be improved by incorporating other smartphone-based sensors, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to obtain more precise location estimates in areas where GPS signal is weakest
Concordance · Environmental health · Family medicine · Global Positioning System · Health care · Population · Recall · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |