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Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol

Barteit et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257170 ↗

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02 / ContributionPlanned methods and outcomes

03 / Interpretation

A protocol does not establish intervention effects.

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Summary

Describes the joint protocol for wearable feasibility, acceptability and validation in Burkina Faso and Kenya.

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Scientific notes: 2026-11-11 · Research connections: 12 November 2026

Protocol / published information

Protocol overview

No outcome results. Sets up three 21-day collection cycles per site and comparison of consumer devices with reference measurement systems.

Study design & setting

Study design and methods

Population, setting or evidence base

Nouna, Burkina Faso, and Siaya, Kenya. Mixed-methods wearable feasibility, acceptability and validation protocol. Planned 300 feasibility participants: 150/site; additional 40 validation participants: 20/site.

Methods

Age/gender sampling, Withings wristbands and Tucky patches, interviews/activity diaries, local weather linkage; ECG, accelerometry and heat-flux reference measurements.

Limits to interpretation