Abstract
Mothers, caregivers, and healthcare providers in 163 countries have used paper and electronic
home-based records (HBRs) to facilitate primary care visit. These standardized records
have the potential to empower women, improve the quality of care for mothers and
children and reduce health inequities. This review examines experiences of women, caregivers
and providers with home-based records for maternal and child health and seeks to
explore the feasibility, acceptability, affordability and equity of these interventions. We systematically
searched MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process, MEDLINE Ahead of Print, Embase,
CINAHL, ERIC, and PsycINFO for articles that were published between January 1992 and
December 2017. We used the CASP checklist to assess study quality, a framework analysis
to support synthesis, and GRADE-CERQual to assess the confidence in the key findings. Of
7,904 citations, 19 studies met our inclusion criteria. In these studies, mothers, caregivers
and children shared HBR experiences in relation to maternal and child health which facilitated
the monitoring of immunisations and child growth and development...