Mapping the Role of Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Effective Coverage of Antenatal Care: A Scoping Review

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Table 1 Eligibility of Studies According to the Participant, Concept, and Context (PCC) Framework

Attribute	Inclusion Criteria	Exclusion Criteria
P: participants	The current review considers studies that evaluate digital health interventions targeted at antenatal care utilization. Types of participants included in this review were women in the antenatal care period and healthcare providers undergoing an intervention to improve utilization of antenatal care services.	Facility heads that are not directly involved in patient care
C: concept	The review considered studies of any intervention delivered using digital technologies designed to improve antenatal care service utilization. Digital health interventions include educational messages (text messaging, SMS, voice calling, voice messaging, transfer or moving images via Multimedia Message Service, video), eRegistry, appointment reminders, Decision support systems, and electronic health records.	Demonstrating skilled birth attendants, postnatal care, emergency care, quality of life, the cost-effectiveness of the intervention, ART compliance reminders
C: context	All countries in the world
Type of study/source	This review included quasi-experimental study designs, randomized controlled trials, before and after studies, analytical observational studies, including prospective and retrospective cohort studies, qualitative formative studies, any Interventional studies	Articles unretrieved for full text (ie, studies with no full-text were excluded after repeatedly contacting)
Language	Studies available in English Language	Studies published not in the English language

Figure 1 PRISMA (updated 2020) flow diagram for data bases and registry search of studies.

Notes: PRISMA figure from Annals of Internal Medicine, Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, O’Brien KK, Colquhoun H, Levac D, et al. PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation. Ann Intern Med. 2018;169(7):467–473.²⁰ Copyright © 2018 American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with the permission of American College of Physicians, Inc.

Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, et al. PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation. Ann Internal Med. 2018;169(7):467–473. doi:10.7326/M18-0850

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