Feasibility of using telephone interviews and internet-based message services during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural Sri Lanka: experiences of the Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged population health researchers to use remote data collection methods to avoid face-to-face interaction. A proper assessment of the feasibility of these methods in low-resource settings is lacking. We share our experience from telephone interviews conducted among pregnant women in the Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort in Sri Lanka.