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

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dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSolomon, Wesley
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Yages
dc.contributor.authorDoherty, Tanya
dc.contributor.authorChopra, Mickey
dc.contributor.authorIjumba, Petrida
dc.contributor.authorTsai, Alexander C.
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Debra
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-08T05:54:30Z
dc.date.available2013-05-08T05:54:30Z
dc.date.issued2009-12
dc.descriptionPublication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismaken_ZA
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent8 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.citationTomlinson, M. et al. 2009. The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: a report from a household survey in South Africa. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 9:51, doi:10.1186/1472-6947-9-51.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1472-6947 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1472-6947 (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1186/1472-6947-9-51
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80734
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity health workers -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity health workers -- South Africa -- Data processingen_ZA
dc.titleThe use of mobile phones as a data collection tool : a report from a household survey in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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