Use of an application on the measles vaccine for Warao indigenous refugees in Brazil.
Bárbara Lopes Paiva, Ingrid Bentes Lima, Laura Maria Vidal Nogueira and 5 others
PMID 38477815WHAT IT FOUND
All 21 Warao refugees owned cellphones, and 20 wanted an app that stored vaccination-card photos and explained measles signs and how to seek help in Warao, Spanish and Portuguese.
Key findings
01All 21 participants owned cellphones, and 20 wanted a mobile app to store vaccination-card photos and receive measles guidance in Warao, Spanish and Portuguese.
0220 participants reported losing their vaccination card more than three times.
0316 participants had been vaccinated in Brazil more than three times, and 14 were reported as vaccinated against measles.
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What it does not show
The study used a convenience sample of 21 Warao indigenous people from one reception facility, so it may not represent other refugee groups or settings. The authors state that the small, specific sample limits generalization to other refugee contexts. No interpreter mediated all dialogues, which made understanding vaccination histories harder for participants who spoke Spanish or Warao. This article reports only the Listen phase; the app was not tested in this paper, and the Create and Deliver phase results were reserved for future publications.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that a measles app improves vaccination. The paper reports what 21 Warao refugees said they wanted and knew; it did not test an app outcome in this article.