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This study applies an iterative user-centred design approach involving frontline birth attendants to create a mobile application ("HBB Prompt") to improve skills retention after initial newborn stabilization training through the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) program. HBB Prompt will then be piloted at one site after HBB training and skills retention will be compared with a control site without HBB Prompt after HBB training.


Clinical Trial Description

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a newborn stabilization course that has been shown to reduce neonatal mortality by up to 47%. Such mortality impact is however not sustained due to rapid skills deterioration.

The investigators propose to improve sustainability of HBB's impact by increasing skills retention with an innovative mobile application called HBB Prompt. HBB Prompt will be an interactive tool that guides frontline providers through the steps needed to save newborn babies at birth. HBB Prompt will facilitate individual and group training in health facilities using the Low Dose High Frequency model (LDHF) for resuscitation skills retention.

The investigators will robustly develop HBB Prompt by integrating human factors and user-centered design approaches. The investigators will engage end-users and HBB Master Trainers to iteratively collect feedback to develop HBB Prompt for both individual and small group resuscitation practice. The iterative approach will mitigate the common scenario of mobile health (mHealth) solutions unable to achieve sustained success at scale due to lack of comprehensive input from frontline users.

The investigators will pilot the app at a single centre and compare it to a control site for HBB skills retention at different time points after initial HBB training. ;


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NCT number NCT03577054
Study type Interventional
Source Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Contact Francis Bajunirwe, PhD
Phone +256772576396
Email fbaj@must.ac.ug
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 14, 2018
Completion date June 30, 2019

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