Table 3.

Components of data-extraction form

Data to be extracted	Specific Items to be extracted
Article description	Authors Article title Year of publication Journal
Study setting	Study type Study design Region (sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Southeast Asia, etc) Country Setting (eg, rural/urban)
Theoretical/conceptual framework	Is there a theoretical or conceptual framework used? If yes, what is it? How do results and discussions relate to the theoretical or conceptual framework?
Intervention description	Type of mHealth tool use (mobile phone, smart phone, PDA, tablet) Format of intervention (unidirectional or bidirectional messaging, voice messages, application) Description of intervention implementation
Participant characteristics	Target group (women, men, grandmothers, etc) Ages Educational level Is a group described or an individual? Geared towards pregnant women or pregnant women plus? Couple? Community/groups within community? Pregnant or prepartum/post partum? Intervention delivery
Study measures and analysis	Sampling and recruitment procedure Data collection Research tools Analysis methods
Outcomes measured	Maternal or reproductive health knowledge Maternal or reproductive health-seeking attitudes Perceptions of maternal or reproductive healthcare Maternal or reproductive health-seeking behaviours
Results	Findings attributable to mHealth interventions
Authors interpretations/conclusions	Quality of evidence
Reviewers’ comments	Equity/sustainability effects Implementation modalities Implementation challenges/bottlenecks

mHealth, mobile health; PDA, personal digital assistant.