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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Feb 13;9:100199. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100199

Table 4:

Reach, Effectiveness, Implementation Adoption and Maintenance measurements.

REAIM dimension Definition Result
REACH % of eligible women who accepted to participate in the trial. 99·3% (n=5351/5389)
EFFECTIVENESS % of HPV-positive women with triage at 120 days in the intervention group vs. control group
% of HPV-positive women with triage at 60 days in the intervention group vs. control group		 70·5% vs 55·1%
53·9% vs. 33·4%
IMPLEMENTATION1 % of randomized CHWs in the intervention group that partici- pated in training
 89·1% (n=139/156)
% of randomized CHWs that participated in trainings and enrolled at least one eligible woman to the intervention group
 94·9 % (n=132/139)
% of SMS messages that reached a HPV-positive womens’valid phone number2 94·2% (419/445)
% of SMS messages that reached a CHWs’valid phone number 96·2% (227/2373)
Receipt of SMS messages reported by women4:
■ % of women who received at least one SMS message 78·1% (289/370)
■ % of phone number wrongly registered 7·0% (26/370)
■ % of women not having received or not remembering having received the SMS message 14·8% (55/370)
Acceptability5: % of women who agreed with the statement “An SMS message is a good communication channel to be informed that the HPV self-collection result is available at the health centre” 97·2% (278/286)
ADOPTION Adoption: % of CHWs that visited at least one HPV-positive woman after receiving the SMS message. 90·8% (89/98)
Acceptability: % of CHWs that agreed with programmatic incorporation of the mHealth intervention 86·9% (n=106/122)
MAINTENANCE Programmatic incorporation of the intervention (qualitative data) Collaborative work with the Argentinean NCI to plan the scaling-up of the ATICA strategy began in November 2021, its implementation is planned for 2022

CHWs: communityhealthworkers. HPV: Human Papillomavirus.

1

Percentages in the Implementation section refer to CHWs and HPV-positive women from the Intervention Group.

2

Phone numbers were considered valid if they did not kick back the error notification.

3

This figure includes 34 HPV-positive women who had their triage Pap registered in SITAM after day 60.

4

Number of women included in the denominator corresponds to women who answered the survey.

5

Number of women included in the denominator corresponds to women who answered the acceptability section of the survey.