Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.

As the epidemiological transition progresses throughout sub-Saharan Africa, life lived with diseases is an increasingly important part of a population's burden of disease. The burden of disease of climate-sensitive health outcomes is projected to increase considerably within the next decades. O...

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Autores principales:	Sandra Barteit, Valentin Boudo, Aristide Ouedraogo, Pascal Zabré, Lucienne Ouremi, Ali Sié, Stephen Munga, David Obor, Daniel Kwaro, Sophie Huhn, Aditi Bunker, Rainer Sauerborn, Hanns-Christian Gunga, Martina A Maggioni, Till Bärnighausen
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4e96fbcc43fc4779b3e903391d89b0602021-12-02T20:07:57ZFeasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257170https://doaj.org/article/4e96fbcc43fc4779b3e903391d89b0602021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257170https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203As the epidemiological transition progresses throughout sub-Saharan Africa, life lived with diseases is an increasingly important part of a population's burden of disease. The burden of disease of climate-sensitive health outcomes is projected to increase considerably within the next decades. Objectively measured, reliable population health data is still limited and is primarily based on perceived illness from recall. Technological advances like non-invasive, consumer-grade wearable devices may play a vital role in alleviating this data gap and in obtaining insights on the disease burden in vulnerable populations, such as heat stress on human cardiovascular response. The overall goal of this study is to investigate whether consumer-grade wearable devices are an acceptable, feasible and valid means to generate data on the individual level in low-resource contexts. Three hundred individuals are recruited from the two study locations in the Nouna health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS), Burkina Faso, and the Siaya HDSS, Kenya. Participants complete a structured questionnaire that comprises question items on acceptability and feasibility under the supervision of trained data collectors. Validity will be evaluated by comparing consumer-grade wearable devices to research-grade devices. Furthermore, we will collect demographic data as well as the data generated by wearable devices. This study will provide insights into the usage of consumer-grade wearable devices to measure individual vital signs in low-resource contexts, such as Burkina Faso and Kenya. Vital signs comprising activity (steps), sleep (duration, quality) and heart rate (hr) are important measures to gain insights on individual behavior and activity patterns in low-resource contexts. These vital signs may be associated with weather variables-as we gather them from weather stations that we have setup as part of this study to cover the whole Nouna and Siaya HDSSs-in order to explore changes in behavior and other variables, such as activity, sleep, hr, during extreme weather events like heat stress exposure. Furthermore, wearable data could be linked to health outcomes and weather events. As a result, consumer-grade wearables may serve as a supporting technology for generating reliable measurements in low-resource contexts and investigating key links between weather occurrences and health outcomes. Thus, wearable devices may provide insights to better inform mitigation and adaptation interventions in these low-resource settings that are direly faced by climate change-induced changes, such as extreme weather events.Sandra BarteitValentin BoudoAristide OuedraogoPascal ZabréLucienne OuremiAli SiéStephen MungaDavid OborDaniel KwaroSophie HuhnAditi BunkerRainer SauerbornHanns-Christian GungaMartina A MaggioniTill BärnighausenPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257170 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Sandra Barteit Valentin Boudo Aristide Ouedraogo Pascal Zabré Lucienne Ouremi Ali Sié Stephen Munga David Obor Daniel Kwaro Sophie Huhn Aditi Bunker Rainer Sauerborn Hanns-Christian Gunga Martina A Maggioni Till Bärnighausen Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
description	As the epidemiological transition progresses throughout sub-Saharan Africa, life lived with diseases is an increasingly important part of a population's burden of disease. The burden of disease of climate-sensitive health outcomes is projected to increase considerably within the next decades. Objectively measured, reliable population health data is still limited and is primarily based on perceived illness from recall. Technological advances like non-invasive, consumer-grade wearable devices may play a vital role in alleviating this data gap and in obtaining insights on the disease burden in vulnerable populations, such as heat stress on human cardiovascular response. The overall goal of this study is to investigate whether consumer-grade wearable devices are an acceptable, feasible and valid means to generate data on the individual level in low-resource contexts. Three hundred individuals are recruited from the two study locations in the Nouna health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS), Burkina Faso, and the Siaya HDSS, Kenya. Participants complete a structured questionnaire that comprises question items on acceptability and feasibility under the supervision of trained data collectors. Validity will be evaluated by comparing consumer-grade wearable devices to research-grade devices. Furthermore, we will collect demographic data as well as the data generated by wearable devices. This study will provide insights into the usage of consumer-grade wearable devices to measure individual vital signs in low-resource contexts, such as Burkina Faso and Kenya. Vital signs comprising activity (steps), sleep (duration, quality) and heart rate (hr) are important measures to gain insights on individual behavior and activity patterns in low-resource contexts. These vital signs may be associated with weather variables-as we gather them from weather stations that we have setup as part of this study to cover the whole Nouna and Siaya HDSSs-in order to explore changes in behavior and other variables, such as activity, sleep, hr, during extreme weather events like heat stress exposure. Furthermore, wearable data could be linked to health outcomes and weather events. As a result, consumer-grade wearables may serve as a supporting technology for generating reliable measurements in low-resource contexts and investigating key links between weather occurrences and health outcomes. Thus, wearable devices may provide insights to better inform mitigation and adaptation interventions in these low-resource settings that are direly faced by climate change-induced changes, such as extreme weather events.
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author	Sandra Barteit Valentin Boudo Aristide Ouedraogo Pascal Zabré Lucienne Ouremi Ali Sié Stephen Munga David Obor Daniel Kwaro Sophie Huhn Aditi Bunker Rainer Sauerborn Hanns-Christian Gunga Martina A Maggioni Till Bärnighausen
author_facet	Sandra Barteit Valentin Boudo Aristide Ouedraogo Pascal Zabré Lucienne Ouremi Ali Sié Stephen Munga David Obor Daniel Kwaro Sophie Huhn Aditi Bunker Rainer Sauerborn Hanns-Christian Gunga Martina A Maggioni Till Bärnighausen
author_sort	Sandra Barteit
title	Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
title_short	Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
title_full	Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
title_fullStr	Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
title_full_unstemmed	Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.
title_sort	feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of burkina faso and kenya: study protocol.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/4e96fbcc43fc4779b3e903391d89b060
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Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol.

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