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Mobile and Scalable Innovations for Measles Immunization: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02904642 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 537

Last updated 2018-03-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall objective is to test the impact of short message service (SMS) reminders, with or without unconditionally provided mobile-money incentives, can improve measles vaccination coverage in rural western Kenyan infants.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SMS reminder

Caregivers will receive two text message reminders for their child's measles immunization scheduled for 9 months of age

BEHAVIORAL

Unconditional Incentive

A mobile-money incentive in the amount of 150 Kenyan Shillings will be transferred to the enrolled caregiver's mobile phone when the child reaches nine months of age

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kenya Medical Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-06
Primary Completion
2017-04-04
Completion
2017-04-04

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