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Empowering Women’s Health: Batteryless RF-Powered Sensor for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Monitoring (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder presents a significant challenge in women’s health due to its debilitating symptoms, including mood swings, irritability, and physical discomfort. Current monitoring methods suffer from limitations in accuracy and inva... Read More about Empowering Women’s Health: Batteryless RF-Powered Sensor for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Monitoring.

Empirical Investigation of Practitioners’ Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite adopting agile practices during large-scale agile software development testing, practitioners developing medical information systems face critical challenges coordinating agile software testing. The lack of collaboration and coordination amon... Read More about Empirical Investigation of Practitioners’ Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development.

Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agile practices have been adopted in developing various software for Information and Communication Technology (ICT4D) due to their flexibility in empowering development teams to provide higher-quality, customer-aligned software. Medical software deve... Read More about Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective.

ACTIVITIES TAILORING WITHIN AGILE SCRUM ROLES: A CASE OF NIGERIAN HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (2024)
Journal Article

Developing quality agile healthcare information systems requires understanding regulatory compliance and evolving healthcare needs through activities tailored within agile scrum roles. Agile scrum, a widely adopted philosophy, offers significant adva... Read More about ACTIVITIES TAILORING WITHIN AGILE SCRUM ROLES: A CASE OF NIGERIAN HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT.

Digital technologies for bowel management: A scoping review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The use of digital technologies in managing bowel conditions has been a topic of interest among healthcare practitioners. The objectives of this paper were to provide information about the types of digital technologies that have bee... Read More about Digital technologies for bowel management: A scoping review.

The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone (2023)
Journal Article
Hopwood, H., Harris, D., Sevalie, S., Iyawa, G., Langan Martin, J., & Martin, J. (2023). The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone. Community Mental Health Journal, 59(6), 1071-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-023-01087-0

In 2009, 98.0% of people with mental illness in Sierra Leone were not receiving treatment, partly due to the absence of public psychiatric facilities outside the capital. In response to this situation, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation rolled out... Read More about The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone.

A scoping review of digital twins in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A., Milne-Ives, M., Meinert, E., Iyawa, G., Jones, R., & Josephraj, A. (2022). A scoping review of digital twins in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology, 13, https://doi.org/10.1177/11795972221102115

Background:
Digital Twins (DTs), virtual copies of physical entities, are a promising tool to help manage and predict outbreaks of Covid-19. By providing a detailed model of each patient, DTs can be used to determine what method of care will be most... Read More about A scoping review of digital twins in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Media multitasking, online vigilance and academic performance among students in three Southern African countries (2021)
Journal Article
Le Roux, D. B., Parry, D. A., Totolo, A., Iyawa, G., Holloway, J., Prenter, A., & Botha, L. (2021). Media multitasking, online vigilance and academic performance among students in three Southern African countries. Computers and Education, 160, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104056

High levels of Internet-based media use is a defining feature of behaviour among university students. A growing body of evidence indicates, firstly, that their learning activities are charac-terised by frequent switching between academic content and... Read More about Media multitasking, online vigilance and academic performance among students in three Southern African countries.

Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Ejehiohen Iyawa, G., Rabiu Dansharif, A., & Khan, A. (2021). Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review. Health and Technology, 11, 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00523-z

Complications during pregnancy is a major problem affecting healthcare systems which requires the efforts of both patients and healthcare practitioners. For this reason, mobile apps have been increasingly sought to support self-management during preg... Read More about Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review.

Systematic Review of Plant Pest and Disease Identification Strategies and Techniques in Mobile Apps (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Identifying plant diseases has been mainstay in any farming and agricultural activity since time immemorial. The most common method has been visually assessing the plants by experts to identify the diseases of the plants and recommending pesticides a... Read More about Systematic Review of Plant Pest and Disease Identification Strategies and Techniques in Mobile Apps.

mHealth for self-management in pregnancy: perceptions of women in low-resource settings (2021)
Journal Article

Mobile health (mHealth) has shown to be effective for self-management. While most studies point to mHealth as a tool to support healthcare in low-resource settings, it is not clear how women in low-resource settings perceive mHealth for self-manageme... Read More about mHealth for self-management in pregnancy: perceptions of women in low-resource settings.

Mobile apps utilising ai for plant disease identification: A systematic review of user reviews (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Plant pests and diseases are huge issues in agriculture which cause yield loss and threaten food security. There have been many efforts to educate, provide services and tools that help farmers deal with the issue of pests and diseases. Mobile apps th... Read More about Mobile apps utilising ai for plant disease identification: A systematic review of user reviews.

Digital Transformation and Global Health in Africa (2020)
Book Chapter

Digital transformation has made a significant impact on all sectors of the economy, requiring the need for different countries to embrace the adjustments that come with it. This is particularly relevant in the healthcare sector where digital technolo... Read More about Digital Transformation and Global Health in Africa.

mHealth for Self-Management During Pregnancy: Perceptions of Women in Low-Resource Settings (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mobile health (mHealth) has shown to be effective for self-management. While most studies point to mHealth as a tool to support healthcare in low-resource settings, it is not clear how women in low-resource settings perceive mHealth for self-manageme... Read More about mHealth for Self-Management During Pregnancy: Perceptions of Women in Low-Resource Settings.

Personal Extreme Programming: Exploring Developers' Adoption (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Personal Extreme Programming (PXP), evolving from the popular agile methodology, Extreme Programming (XP) and Personal Software Process (PSP), has been suggested as a methodology for autonomous developers who aim to incorporate the principles of XP i... Read More about Personal Extreme Programming: Exploring Developers' Adoption.

MHealth Apps and Services for Maternal Healthcare in Developing Countries (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this paper was to define mobile health (mHealth) for maternal healthcare in the context of developing countries. This paper also aimed to identify and classify different mHealth apps and services used for maternal healthcare in develop... Read More about MHealth Apps and Services for Maternal Healthcare in Developing Countries.

CS Challenger: Gamifying the Learning of Computer Science Concepts through a Mobile Application Platform (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There is a huge dropout rate among Computer Science students at the University of Namibia (UNAM). This can be attributed to the lack of engaging methods for learning both basic and advanced computational concepts. Despite gamification concepts in lea... Read More about CS Challenger: Gamifying the Learning of Computer Science Concepts through a Mobile Application Platform.

Building a Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem Framework through Design Science Research (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem is a relatively new concept, with studies describing it as an ecosystem that allows patients and other healthcare stakeholders take part in the healthcare delivery process using digital health technologies with the... Read More about Building a Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem Framework through Design Science Research.

mHealth as tools for development in mental health (2019)
Book Chapter
Ejehiohen Iyawa, G., Langan-Martin, J., Sevalie, S., & Masikara, W. (2019). mHealth as tools for development in mental health. In Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and Empowerment. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0047-7.ch004

This chapter provides an assessment of studies on mobile health (mHealth) tools for development in addressing diseases relating to mental health, informs the current publications trends, identifies research gaps in the existing literature, and sugges... Read More about mHealth as tools for development in mental health.

Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying key participants, benefits, challenges and guidelines for the Namibian context (2019)
Journal Article
Iyawa, G., Herselman, M., & Botha, A. (2019). Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying key participants, benefits, challenges and guidelines for the Namibian context. International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.4018/IJRQEH.2019040101

The purpose of this paper was to identify key participants, benefits, and challenges of a digital health innovation ecosystem in Namibia. The paper also aimed to identify strategies for implementing digital health innovation ecosystems in Namibia. Th... Read More about Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying key participants, benefits, challenges and guidelines for the Namibian context.