ASHABot: An LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers
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| author | Ramjee, Pragnya Chhokar, Mehak Sachdeva, Bhuvan Meena, Mahendra Abdullah, Hamid Vashistha, Aditya Nagar, Ruchit Jain, Mohit |
| author_facet | Ramjee, Pragnya Chhokar, Mehak Sachdeva, Bhuvan Meena, Mahendra Abdullah, Hamid Vashistha, Aditya Nagar, Ruchit Jain, Mohit |
| contents | Community health workers (CHWs) provide last-mile healthcare services but face challenges due to limited medical knowledge and training. This paper describes the design, deployment, and evaluation of ASHABot, an LLM-powered, experts-in-the-loop, WhatsApp-based chatbot to address the information needs of CHWs in India. Through interviews with CHWs and their supervisors and log analysis, we examine factors affecting their engagement with ASHABot, and ASHABot's role in addressing CHWs' informational needs. We found that ASHABot provided a private channel for CHWs to ask rudimentary and sensitive questions they hesitated to ask supervisors. CHWs trusted the information they received on ASHABot and treated it as an authoritative resource. CHWs' supervisors expanded their knowledge by contributing answers to questions ASHABot failed to answer, but were concerned about demands on their workload and increased accountability. We emphasize positioning LLMs as supplemental fallible resources within the community healthcare ecosystem, instead of as replacements for supervisor support. |
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| spellingShingle | ASHABot: An LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers Ramjee, Pragnya Chhokar, Mehak Sachdeva, Bhuvan Meena, Mahendra Abdullah, Hamid Vashistha, Aditya Nagar, Ruchit Jain, Mohit Human-Computer Interaction Community health workers (CHWs) provide last-mile healthcare services but face challenges due to limited medical knowledge and training. This paper describes the design, deployment, and evaluation of ASHABot, an LLM-powered, experts-in-the-loop, WhatsApp-based chatbot to address the information needs of CHWs in India. Through interviews with CHWs and their supervisors and log analysis, we examine factors affecting their engagement with ASHABot, and ASHABot's role in addressing CHWs' informational needs. We found that ASHABot provided a private channel for CHWs to ask rudimentary and sensitive questions they hesitated to ask supervisors. CHWs trusted the information they received on ASHABot and treated it as an authoritative resource. CHWs' supervisors expanded their knowledge by contributing answers to questions ASHABot failed to answer, but were concerned about demands on their workload and increased accountability. We emphasize positioning LLMs as supplemental fallible resources within the community healthcare ecosystem, instead of as replacements for supervisor support. |
| title | ASHABot: An LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10913 |