Beyond Listenership: AI-Predicted Interventions Drive Improvements in Maternal Health Behaviours

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20755v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:06:22 GMT
• Title: Beyond Listenership: AI-Predicted Interventions Drive Improvements in Maternal Health Behaviours
• Authors: Arpan Dasgupta, Sarvesh Gharat, Neha Madhiwalla, Aparna Hegde, Milind Tambe, Aparna Taneja,
• Abstract summary: We show that AI-scheduled interventions, which enhance listenership, lead to statistically significant improvements in beneficiaries' health behaviors.<n>This underscores the potential of AI to drive meaningful improvements in maternal and child health.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated voice calls with health information are a proven method for disseminating maternal and child health information among beneficiaries and are deployed in several programs around the world. However, these programs often suffer from beneficiary dropoffs and poor engagement. In previous work, through real-world trials, we showed that an AI model, specifically a restless bandit model, could identify beneficiaries who would benefit most from live service call interventions, preventing dropoffs and boosting engagement. However, one key question has remained open so far: does such improved listenership via AI-targeted interventions translate into beneficiaries' improved knowledge and health behaviors? We present a first study that shows not only listenership improvements due to AI interventions, but also simultaneously links these improvements to health behavior changes. Specifically, we demonstrate that AI-scheduled interventions, which enhance listenership, lead to statistically significant improvements in beneficiaries' health behaviors such as taking iron or calcium supplements in the postnatal period, as well as understanding of critical health topics during pregnancy and infancy. This underscores the potential of AI to drive meaningful improvements in maternal and child health.

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