The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa

被引：191

作者：

Tomlinson, Mark ^{[1
,2
]}

Solomon, Wesley ^{[2
]}

Singh, Yages ^{[3
]}

Doherty, Tanya ^{[2
,4
]}

Chopra, Mickey ^{[5
]}

Ijumba, Petrida ^{[3
]}

Tsai, Alexander C. ^{[6
]}

Jackson, Debra ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Psychol, ZA-7602 Matieland, South Africa

[2] MRC, Hlth Syst Res Unit, ZA-7535 Cape Town, South Africa

[3] MRC, Hlth Syst Res Unit, ZA-4091 Durban, South Africa

[4] Univ Western Cape, Sch Publ Hlth, ZA-7535 Bellville, South Africa

[5] UNICEF, New York, NY 10017 USA

[6] Univ Calif San Francisco, Langley Porter Psychiat Inst, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

来源：

BMC MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND DECISION MAKING | 2009年 / 9卷

关键词：

RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL;

D O I：

10.1186/1472-6947-9-51

中图分类号：

R-058 [];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Background: To investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect data using mobile phones in a large baseline survey Methods: A web-based system was developed to allow electronic surveys or questionnaires to be designed on a word processor, sent to, and conducted on standard entry level mobile phones. Results: The web-based interface permitted comprehensive daily real-time supervision of CHW performance, with no data loss. The system permitted the early detection of data fabrication in combination with real-time quality control and data collector supervision. Conclusions: The benefits of mobile technology, combined with the improvement that mobile phones offer over PDA's in terms of data loss and uploading difficulties, make mobile phones a feasible method of data collection that needs to be further explored.

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