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Exploring Factors Associated with Women’s Willingness to Provide Digital Fingerprints in Accessing Healthcare Services: A Cross-Sectional Study in Urban Slums of Bangladesh

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  • Sabuj Kanti Mistry

    (BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
    Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
    Department of Health Research, ARCED Foundation, 13/1, Pallabi, Mirpur-12, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh
    Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh)

  • Fahmida Akter

    (BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh)

  • Md. Belal Hossain

    (BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
    School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada)

  • Md. Nazmul Huda

    (School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Campbeltown, NSW 2560, Australia
    School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia)

  • Nafis Md. Irfan

    (Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
    Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA)

  • Uday Narayan Yadav

    (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia)

  • Daniel M. L. Storisteanu

    (Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
    D.M.L.S. and A.A. contributed equally and are senior authors of this paper.)

  • Amit Arora

    (Translational Health Research Institute, Campbelltown Campus, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
    School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown Campus, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
    Oral Health Services, Sydney Local Health District and Sydney Dental Hospital, NSW Health, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia
    Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia)

Abstract

Digital fingerprints are increasingly used for patient care and treatment delivery, health system monitoring and evaluation, and maintaining data integrity during health research. Yet, no evidence exists about the use of fingerprinting technologies in maternal healthcare services in urban slum contexts, globally. The present study aimed to explore the recently delivered women’s willingness to give digital fingerprints to community health workers to access healthcare services in the urban slums of Bangladesh and identify the associated factors. Employing a two-stage cluster random sampling procedure, we chose 458 recently delivered women from eight randomly selected urban slums of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Chi-square tests were performed for descriptive analyses, and binary logistic regression analyses were performed to explore the factors associated with willingness to provide fingerprints. Overall, 78% of the participants reported that they were willing to provide digital fingerprints if that eased access to healthcare services. After adjusting for potential confounders, the sex of the household head, family type, and household wealth status were significantly associated with the willingness to provide fingerprints to access healthcare services. The study highlighted the potentials of using fingerprints for making healthcare services accessible. Focus is needed for female-headed households, women from poor families, and engaging husbands and in-laws in mobile health programs.

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  • Sabuj Kanti Mistry & Fahmida Akter & Md. Belal Hossain & Md. Nazmul Huda & Nafis Md. Irfan & Uday Narayan Yadav & Daniel M. L. Storisteanu & Amit Arora, 2021. "Exploring Factors Associated with Women’s Willingness to Provide Digital Fingerprints in Accessing Healthcare Services: A Cross-Sectional Study in Urban Slums of Bangladesh," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2021:i:1:p:40-:d:707851
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