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Text Message Reminders to Health Workers on Malaria, Pneumonia, and Diarrhea Case Management in Malawi

NCT02645513 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 182

Last updated 2017-12-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether twice-daily text message reminders over a six-month period to health workers in Malawi about diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea improve case management of these diseases.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Malaria text message reminders to health workers

Text message reminders contain key details from national case management guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of malaria

BEHAVIORAL

Malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea text message reminders to health workers

Text message reminders contain key details from national case management guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea

BEHAVIORAL

Control

No text message reminders

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Don Mathanga, MD, PhD · Malaria Alert Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-02-29

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