Published on in Vol 19, No 5 (2017): May

Building the Evidence Base for Remote Data Collection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Comparing Reliability and Accuracy Across Survey Modalities

Building the Evidence Base for Remote Data Collection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Comparing Reliability and Accuracy Across Survey Modalities

Building the Evidence Base for Remote Data Collection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Comparing Reliability and Accuracy Across Survey Modalities

Journals

  1. Shah N, Mohan D, Agarwal S, Scott K, Chamberlain S, Bhatnagar A, Labrique A, Indurkar M, Ved R, LeFevre A, Evans D. Novel approaches to measuring knowledge among frontline health workers in India: Are phone surveys a reliable option?. PLOS ONE 2020;15(6):e0234241 View
  2. Torres-Quintero A, Vega A, Gibson D, Rodriguez-Patarroyo M, Puerto S, Pariyo G, Ali J, Hyder A, Labrique A, Selig H, Peñaloza R, Vecino-Ortiz A. Adaptation of a mobile phone health survey for risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Colombia: a qualitative study. Global Health Action 2020;13(1) View
  3. Lamanna C, Hachhethu K, Chesterman S, Singhal G, Mwongela B, Ng’endo M, Passeri S, Farhikhtah A, Kadiyala S, Bauer J, Rosenstock T, West B. Strengths and limitations of computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) for nutrition data collection in rural Kenya. PLOS ONE 2019;14(1):e0210050 View
  4. Cheelo M, Brugha R, Bijlmakers L, Kachimba J, McCauley T, Gajewski J. Surgical Capacity at District Hospitals in Zambia: From 2012 to 2016. World Journal of Surgery 2018;42(11):3508 View
  5. LeFevre A, Shah N, Bashingwa J, George A, Mohan D. Does women’s mobile phone ownership matter for health? Evidence from 15 countries. BMJ Global Health 2020;5(5):e002524 View
  6. Pariyo G, Greenleaf A, Gibson D, Ali J, Selig H, Labrique A, Al Kibria G, Khan I, Masanja H, Flora M, Ahmed S, Hyder A, Maulik P. Does mobile phone survey method matter? Reliability of computer-assisted telephone interviews and interactive voice response non-communicable diseases risk factor surveys in low and middle income countries. PLOS ONE 2019;14(4):e0214450 View
  7. Greenleaf A, Gadiaga A, Guiella G, Turke S, Battle N, Ahmed S, Moreau C, Ngure K. Comparability of modern contraceptive use estimates between a face-to-face survey and a cellphone survey among women in Burkina Faso. PLOS ONE 2020;15(5):e0231819 View
  8. Pima F, Oshosen M, Ngowi K, Habte B, Maro E, Teffera B, Kisigo G, Swai I, Msangi S, Ermias A, Mmbaga B, Both R, Sumari-de Boer M. Feasibility of Using Short Message Service and In-Depth Interviews to Collect Data on Contraceptive Use Among Young, Unmarried, Sexually Active Men in Moshi, Tanzania, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Mixed Methods Study With a Longitudinal Follow-Up. JMIR Formative Research 2019;3(2):e12657 View
  9. Greenleaf A, Gadiaga A, Choi Y, Guiella G, Turke S, Battle N, Ahmed S, Moreau C. Automated and Interviewer-Administered Mobile Phone Surveys in Burkina Faso: Sociodemographic Differences Among Female Mobile Phone Survey Respondents and Nonrespondents. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2020;8(7):e17891 View
  10. Greenleaf A, Ahmed S, Moreau C, Guiella G, Choi Y. Cell phone ownership and modern contraceptive use in Burkina Faso: implications for research and interventions using mobile technology. Contraception 2019;99(3):170 View
  11. Pattnaik A, Mohan D, Chipokosa S, Wachepa S, Katengeza H, Misomali A, Marx M. Testing the validity and feasibility of using a mobile phone-based method to assess the strength of implementation of family planning programs in Malawi. BMC Health Services Research 2020;20(1) View
  12. Drake A, Rothschild C, Jiang W, Ronen K, Unger J. Utility of Short Message Service (SMS) for Remote Data Collection for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Current HIV/AIDS Reports 2020;17(6):654 View
  13. Cowley E, Watson P, Foweather L, Belton S, Mansfield C, Whitcomb-Khan G, Cacciatore I, Thompson A, Thijssen D, Wagenmakers A. Formative Evaluation of a Home-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Adolescent Girls—The HERizon Project: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Children 2021;8(2):76 View
  14. Mehta K, Ward V, Darmstadt G. Best practices in global health evaluation: Reflections on learning from an independent program analysis in Bihar, India. Journal of Global Health 2020;10(2) View
  15. Hensen B, Mackworth-Young C, Simwinga M, Abdelmagid N, Banda J, Mavodza C, Doyle A, Bonell C, Weiss H. Remote data collection for public health research in a COVID-19 era: ethical implications, challenges and opportunities. Health Policy and Planning 2021;36(3):360 View
  16. Ashigbie P, Rockers P, Laing R, Cabral H, Onyango M, Mboya J, Arends D, Wirtz V. Phone-based monitoring to evaluate health policy and program implementation in Kenya. Health Policy and Planning 2021;36(4):444 View
  17. Suich H, Yap M, Pham T. Coverage bias: the impact of eligibility constraints on mobile phone-based sampling and data collection. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 2022;25(6):849 View
  18. Greenleaf A, Mwima G, Lethoko M, Conkling M, Keefer G, Chang C, McLeod N, Maruyama H, Chen Q, Farley S, Low A. Participatory Surveillance of COVID-19 in Lesotho via Weekly Calls: Protocol for Cell Phone Data Collection. JMIR Research Protocols 2021;10(9):e31236 View
  19. Rivera A. Complementary medicine as a risk factor for catastrophic expenditures in people with cancer. The Lancet Global Health 2022;10(3):e313 View
  20. Desta B, Gobena T, Macuamule C, Fayemi O, Ayolabi C, Mmbaga B, Thomas K, Dodd W, Pires S, Majowicz S, Hald T. Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2022;19(1) View
  21. Gibson D, Wosu A, Pariyo G, Ahmed S, Ali J, Labrique A, Khan I, Rutebemberwa E, Flora M, Hyder A. Effect of airtime incentives on response and cooperation rates in non-communicable disease interactive voice response surveys: randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh and Uganda. BMJ Global Health 2019;4(5):e001604 View
  22. Allen L, Mackinnon S, Gordon I, Blane D, Marques A, Gichuhi S, Mwangi A, Burton M, Bolster N, Macleod D, Kim M, Ramke J, Bastawrous A. Performance and Resource Requirements of In-Person, Voice Call, and Automated Telephone-Based Socioeconomic Data Collection Modalities for Community-Based Health Programs. JAMA Network Open 2022;5(11):e2243883 View
  23. Ng A, Mohan D, Shah N, Scott K, Ummer O, Chamberlain S, Bhatnagar A, Dhar D, Agarwal S, Ved R, LeFevre A. Assessing the reliability of phone surveys to measure reproductive, maternal and child health knowledge among pregnant women in rural India: a feasibility study. BMJ Open 2022;12(3):e056076 View
  24. Ndashimye F, Hebie O, Tjaden J. Effectiveness of WhatsApp for Measuring Migration in Follow-Up Phone Surveys. Lessons from a Mode Experiment in Two Low-Income Countries during COVID Contact Restrictions. Social Science Computer Review 2024;42(2):460 View
  25. Butts B, Alford T, Brewster G, Carlson N, Coleman E, Davis E, Ferranti E, Kimble L, Narapareddy L, Wells J, Yang I. Adaptation of Metabolomics and Microbiomic Research Protocols During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nursing Research 2022;71(2):128 View
  26. Gibson D, Kibria G, Pariyo G, Ahmed S, Ali J, Labrique A, Khan I, Rutebemberwa E, Flora M, Hyder A. Promised and Lottery Airtime Incentives to Improve Interactive Voice Response Survey Participation Among Adults in Bangladesh and Uganda: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2022;24(5):e36943 View
  27. Pariyo G, Meghani A, Gibson D, Ali J, Labrique A, Khan I, Kibria G, Masanja H, Hyder A, Ahmed S. Effect of the Data Collection Method on Mobile Phone Survey Participation in Bangladesh and Tanzania: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Crossover Trial. JMIR Formative Research 2023;7:e38774 View
  28. Kayiira A, Zaake D, Xiong S, Balagadde J, Ghebre R, Wabinga H, Onoya D. Understanding Reproductive Health among Survivors of Paediatric and Young adults (URHSPY) cancers in Uganda: A mixed method study protocol. PLOS ONE 2023;18(4):e0284969 View
  29. Arita S, Ba M, Traoré Z, Bonnet E, Faye A, Ridde V. Use of interviewer-administered telephone surveys during infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health 2023;8(5):e011109 View
  30. Guzman-Tordecilla D, Vecino-Ortiz A, Torres-Quintero A, Solorzano-Barrera C, Ali J, Peñaloza-Quintero R, Ahmed S, Pariyo G, Maniar V, Gibson D. Examination of the demographic representativeness of a cross-sectional mobile phone survey in collecting health data in Colombia using random digit dialling. BMJ Open 2023;13(6):e073647 View
  31. Kibria G, Ahmed S, Khan I, Fernández-Niño J, Vecino-Ortiz A, Ali J, Pariyo G, Kaufman M, Sen A, Basu S, Gibson D, Kajungu D. Developing digital tools for health surveys in low- and middle-income countries: Comparing findings of two mobile phone surveys with a nationally representative in-person survey in Bangladesh. PLOS Global Public Health 2023;3(7):e0002053 View
  32. Nomali M, Mehrdad N, Heidari M, Ayati A, Yadegar A, Payab M, Olyaeemanesh A, Larijani B. Challenges and solutions in clinical research during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A narrative review. Health Science Reports 2023;6(8) View
  33. Maniar V, Gibson D, Labrique A, Ali J, Vecino-Ortiz A, Torres-Quintero A, Puerto-García S, Solorzano-Barrera C, Masanja H, Kagoro F, Pariyo G. The effect of airtime incentives to improve participation in noncommunicable disease interactive voice response surveys: randomized controlled trials in Colombia and Tanzania. Oxford Open Digital Health 2023;1 View
  34. Shea A, Thornburg J, Vitzthum V. Assessment of App-Based Versus Conventional Survey Modalities for Reproductive Health Research in India, South Africa, and the United States: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Formative Research 2023;7:e44705 View
  35. Umar N, Hill Z, Schellenberg J, Sambo N, Shuaibu A, Aliyu A, Kulani K, Abdullahi M, Usman A, Mohammed H, Adamu H, Ibrahim M, Mohammed A, Abdulhamid A, Muhammed Z, Alfayo A, Marchant T. Understanding rural women's preferences for telephone call engagement with primary health care providers in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment. BMJ Global Health 2023;8(12):e013498 View
  36. Solorzano-Barrera C, Rodriguez-Patarroyo M, Tórres-Quintero A, Guzman-Tordecilla D, Franco-Rodriguez A, Maniar V, Shrestha P, Vecino-Ortiz A, Pariyo G, Gibson D, Ali J. Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study. Global Health Action 2024;17(1) View
  37. Harel D, Wu Y, Levis B, Fan S, Sun Y, Xu M, Rice D, Boruff J, Markham S, Ioannidis J, Takwoingi Y, Patten S, Ziegelstein R, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Vigod S, Akena D, Benedetti A, Thombs B, Azar M, Bhandari P, Chiovitti M, He C, Imran M, Krishnan A, Negeri Z, Neupane D, Riehm K, Yan X, Kloda L, Henry M, Ismail Z, Loiselle C, Mitchell N, Al-Adawi S, Alvarado R, Amtmann D, Arroll B, Ayalon L, Baradaran H, Barnes J, Beck K, Beck C, Bernstein C, Bindt C, Bombardier C, Boye B, Büel-Drabe N, Buji R, Bunevicius A, Butterworth P, Can C, Carter G, Chagas M, Chan J, Chan L, Chen C, Chibanda D, Chorwe-Sungani G, Clover K, Conroy R, Conway A, Conwell Y, Correa H, Couto T, Cukor D, Daray F, de Man-van Ginkel J, De Souza J, Downing M, Eapen V, Fann J, Favez N, Felice E, Fellmeth G, Ferentinos P, Fernandes M, Field S, Figueiredo B, Fischer F, Fisher J, Flint A, Fujimori M, Fung D, Gallagher P, Gandy M, Gelaye B, Gholizadeh L, Gibson L, Goodyear-Smith F, Grassi L, Green E, Greeno C, Hall B, Hantsoo L, Haroz E, Härter M, Hegerl U, Helle N, Hernando A, Hides L, Hobfoll S, Honikman S, Howard L, Hyphantis T, Iglesias-González M, Inagaki M, Jenewein J, Jeon H, Jetté N, Julião M, Kettunen P, Khamseh M, Kiely K, Kim S, Kjærgaard M, Kohlhoff J, Kohrt B, König H, Kozinszky Z, Kwan Y, Lamers F, Lara M, Leonardou A, Levin-Aspenson H, Liu S, Löbner M, Loosman W, Lotrakul M, Loureiro S, Love A, Löwe B, Luitel N, Lund C, Maes M, Malt U, Marrie R, Marsh L, Martínez P, Marx B, Matsuoka Y, McGuire A, Mehnert A, Michopoulos I, Sidik S, Müller-Nordhorn J, Muramatsu K, Radoš S, Navarrete L, Nelson C, Ng C, Nishi D, O'Donnell M, O'Rourke S, Osório F, Pabst A, Pasco J, Pawlby S, Peceliuniene J, Pence B, Persoons P, Petersen I, Picardi A, Ponsford J, Pugh S, Pulido F, Quinn T, Quispel C, Rathod S, Reme S, Reuter K, Riedel-Heller S, Rooney A, Santos I, Saracino R, Schellekens M, Schwarzbold M, Cankorur V, Shaaban J, Sharp D, Sharpe L, Shinn E, Sidebottom A, Simard S, Singer S, Skalkidou A, Smith-Nielsen J, Spangenberg L, Stafford L, Stein A, Stewart R, Strobel N, Su K, Sultan S, Sundström-Poromaa I, Sung S, Suzuki K, Tadinac M, Tan P, Tandon S, Taylor-Rowan M, Teixeira A, Tendais I, Tiringer I, Töreki A, Tran T, Trevillion K, Tschorn M, Turner A, Væver M, van der Feltz-Cornelis C, van Heyningen T, Vega-Dienstmaier J, Wagner M, Wagner L, Wang L, Wang J, Watson D, Weyerer S, White J, Whooley M, Wiese B, Williams L, Winkley K, Wynter K, Yamada M, Yonkers K, Zeng Q, Zhang Y. Comparison of Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression – Depression subscale scores by administration mode: An individual participant data differential item functioning meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders 2024;361:674 View
  38. Vecino-Ortiz A, Guzman-Tordecilla D, Maniar V, Agudelo-Londoño S, Franco-Suarez O, Aya Pastrana N, Rodríguez-Patarroyo M, Mejía-Rocha M, Cardona J, Chavez Chamorro M, Gibson D. Mobile Phone Syndromic Surveillance for Respiratory Conditions in an Emergency (COVID-19) Context in Colombia: Representative Survey Design. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2024;26:e50184 View
  39. Greenleaf A, Nhlabatsi B, Mahlalela K, Masangane Z, Ndlangamandla M, Philips N, Nuwagaba‑Biribonwoha H. DYnamics of Contraception in Eswatini (DYCE): protocol for a high-frequency, longitudinal cell phone survey. BMJ Open 2024;14(11):e090686 View
  40. Kitamura K, De Castro F, Gochyyev P, Shakya D, Cappa C, Acharya S, Acharya D, Petrowski N. Concurrent validity of scores from phone-based caregiver reports on early childhood development: Evidence from the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 implementation in Nepal. Studies in Educational Evaluation 2025;84:101428 View