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Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Mobile Health in Development of an Exclusive Breastfeeding Tool: Focus Group Study With Caregivers and Health Promoters in the Dominican Republic.

Clarisse G CasilangSamantha StonbrakerIngrid JapaMina HalpernLuz MessinaAndrew P SteenhoffElizabeth D LowenthalLinda Fleisher
Published in: JMIR pediatrics and parenting (2020)
There is a high level of acceptance of ICT tools for breastfeeding promotion among caregivers in urban and rural areas of the Dominican Republic. As mHealth tools can contribute to increased breastfeeding self-efficacy, identifying desirable features of such a tool is necessary to create an effective intervention. Participants wanted to receive trusted and reliable information through various formats and were interested in information beyond breastfeeding.
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