Emily Fivian, Manoj Parida, Helen Harris-Fry, Satyanarayan Mohanty, Shibanath Padhan, Ronali Pradhan, Pranay Das, Gladys Odhiambo, Audrey Prost, Terry Roopnaraine, Satyaranjan Behera, Philip James, Naba Kishor Mishra, Suchitra Rath, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Peggy Koniz-Booher, Heather Danton, Elizabeth Allen, Suneetha Kadiyala
Addressing undernutrition requires strategies that remove barriers to health for all. We adapted an intervention from the 'UPAVAN' trial to a mobile intervention (m-UPAVAN) during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural Odisha, India. In UPAVAN, women's groups viewed and discussed participatory videos on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive agricultural (NSA) topics. In m-UPAVAN, weekly videos and audios on the same topics were disseminated via WhatsApp and an interactive voice response system. We assessed feasibility, acceptability, and equity of m-UPAVAN using a convergent parallel mixed-methods design...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health