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Saving Mother and Baby With Text Messaging

NCT01775150 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5646

Last updated 2013-01-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We plan to integrate WHO educational material using mobile phone text messaging, target on pregnant women in remote rural areas in China. We hypothsized that text messaging can have major impact on reducing maternal and infant deaths in rural China because text messaging is accessible, acceptable, and affordable.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

health education

Health education via text messaging

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian International Development Agency

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rihua Xie, PhD · Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

  • Shi Wu Wen, PhD · Ottawa Hospital Resarch Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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