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Mobile Phone Messaging to Improve Women's and Children's Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya

NCT01894126 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2016-11-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

With the increased prevalence of cellular phones, mobile technology provides an important tool to reach underserved populations in low to middle income countries. mHealth interventions offer promise to improve maternal child health throughout the reproductive health continuum if they contribute to increasing skilled birth attendance, family planning and exclusive breastfeeding. We propose a randomized clinical trial to determine effect of using mobile phones to deliver SMS (one-way) versus an interactive SMS dialogue (two-way) on uptake of reproductive and neonatal health services and maternal and infant outcomes

Conditions

  • Maternal Health
  • Neonatal Health
  • Family Planning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Two-way SMS Dialogue

BEHAVIORAL

One-way SMS Messaging

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Nairobi

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kenyatta National Hospital

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Washington

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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