TABLE 1.

Pilot Testing of Poshan Didi Chatbot, Madhya Pradesh, India

Pilot PhaseUsers, No.Sample BiasEngagement
110Users are manually chosen
  • Medium: WhatsApp.

  • The intervention interaction is manual (users engage with Poshan Didi, but a researcher reads and responds manually to user questions).

  • Evaluation is purely qualitative.

2100Users are not representative of the larger population
  • Medium: Telegram.

  • Intervention is increasingly automated.

  • Results are increasingly quantitative, though not necessarily widely generalized.