Telehealth Care for Mothers and Infants to Improve the Continuum of Care: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study

Kimiyo Kikuchi   ¹ , MPhil, MHS, PhD ;   Rafiqul Islam   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Yoko Sato   ¹ , MHS ;   Mariko Nishikitani   ² , MPH, PhD ;   Rieko Izukura   ³ , MHS, PhD ;   Nusrat Jahan   ⁴ , BSc ;   Fumihiko Yokota   ⁵ , MPH, PhD ;   Subaru Ikeda   ¹ , MHS, PhD ;   Nazneen Sultana   ⁴ , MSc ;   Meherun Nessa   ⁶ , MBBS, DGO ;   Morshed Nasir   ⁶ , MBBS, MPhil ;   Ashir Ahmed   ⁷ , MSc, PhD ;   Kiyoko Kato   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Seiichi Morokuma   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Naoki Nakashima   ² , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

² Medical Information Center, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

³ Social Medicine, Department of Basic Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

⁴ Grameen Communications, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁵ Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

⁶ Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁷ Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan