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Preserving ACTs - Text Reminders to Increase Adherence to ACT Treatment

NCT01722734 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1140

Last updated 2014-03-21

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Summary

A randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of text reminders sent to ACT users through an automated text messaging system short-message-system.

Study hypothesis: text message reminders increase adherence

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Text message reminders

Patients in the two treatment arms receive six short text message reminders within 60 hours of treatment initiation at 12 hour intervals to remind them to take their malaria medication as prescribed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gunther Fink, PhD · Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • Ghana

Study Locations

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