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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Children and Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1392709

Mobile Health Interventions on Vaccination Coverage among Children under five years of age in Low and Middle-income Countries; a Scoping Review

Provisionally accepted
Olanrewaju Onigbogi Olanrewaju Onigbogi 1*Omobola Yetunde Ojo Omobola Yetunde Ojo 2Ulla-Mari Kinnunen Ulla-Mari Kinnunen 3Kaija Saranto Kaija Saranto 3
  • 1 University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2 Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • 3 University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Northern Savonia, Finland

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    Objectives: Increased mobile phone use in Low-and Middle-Income countries (LMIC) has led to suggestions that health interventions using mobile phones can help solve some health problems. Vaccination has been shown to be an effective means of improving health outcomes. However, vaccination coverage in many LMIC has been generally low. The aim of this study was to synthesize evidence concerning the context, mechanisms, and outcome elements of mobile health interventions in improving vaccination coverage among children under five years of age in LMIC.Methods: A search conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, CINAHL, Embase, and the Cochrane library led to 27 studies included in the final analysis out of 357 identified articles.Results: Twenty-one studies were from Africa, four from Asia and two studies were from Latin America and the Caribbean. Short Message Service (SMS) intervention was used exclusively in 21 studies while six studies used a combination of SMS and phone calls, and one intervention was based only on phone calls.The results from most studies suggest an improved uptake of vaccination with mobile health interventions. However, there is a need for further research to quantify the impact of these interventions and determine the most effective strategies.

    Keywords: Low-and middle-income countries, mHealth, Scoping review, Vaccination, Under five, Children

    Received: 27 Feb 2024; Accepted: 10 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Onigbogi, Ojo, Kinnunen and Saranto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Olanrewaju Onigbogi, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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