Beyond individual barriers and facilitators: Digital interventions to address diabetes in urban Ghana
Our findings challenge the widespread assumption that digital interventions should be targeted at the individual; rather, digital tools might be used to empower community leaders in Ga Mashie with training and clinical guidance to function as healthcare agents, scaling-up the delivery of education and screening services to their broader community. This suggests a novel system-level strategy for designing community-based, empowerment-focused digital health interventions that reflect the practices and values of community members, though further work is needed to validate this approach.
Authors
- Edward F. Fottrell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0518-7161)
- Hannah Maria Jennings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8580-0327)
- Irene Akwo Kretchy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6811-5937)
- Daniel Strachan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6143-1742)
- Leonard Baatiema (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3286-6565)
- Ann Blandford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3198-7122)
- Ethan Gray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8941)
- Hassan Haghparast‐Bidgoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6365-2944)
- Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0638-6261)
- Megan Vaughan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7160-2170)
- Vida Asah-Ayeh
- Raphael Baffour Awuah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-9162)
- Samuel Amon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3937-175X)
- Publa Antwi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9374-7706)
Institutions
- University of Ghana (GH)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- School of Advanced Study (GB)
- Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (GH)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
- The London College (GB)
- Vital Strategies (US)
- University College London (GB)
- University of York (GB)
- Hull York Medical School (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Digital Health
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076251349705
- Primary Topic
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Medical Research Council