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VDOT and Mobile Payments in Cambodia

NCT03547479 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2024-04-05

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Summary

This project proposes to develop and pilot a novel smart phone-based intervention to improve tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence in Cambodia, which integrates video-enabled Directly Observed Treatment (vDOT) with an automated rewards system that transfers mobile money and eventual phone ownership to compliant patients. The results will be of immediate relevance to Cambodia's National TB Control Program (which is partnering with us), the major implementing field partner Operation ASHA (a leading TB-focused nonprofit organization), as well as other TB control programs seeking new alternatives to improving adherence, especially where traditional DOT may be infeasible or costly, and outside the area of TB where adherence to treatment is critical, such as HIV, and will provide key insights into mobile health (mHealth) programs in a setting relevant to other developing countries. The project will involve building new capacity in Cambodia for behavioral research, mHealth,and communications through hands-on training for study staff in-country, and through general training sessions for internal and external stakeholders.

Conditions

  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

VDOT

In VDOT, reminder notifications are sent x minutes prior to the scheduled pill time, and continue every y minutes until the user sends a video of themselves taking their pill via the app. Instructions will be provided in Khmer. The web system has an administrator component whereby a healthcare provider can log in via the Internet to monitor and validate all the videos received that day, and reasons for non-submission.

BEHAVIORAL

VDOT + mobile money

The VDOT intervention above will be paired with financial incentives in the form of mobile payments in one of the experimental arms.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Operation ASHA

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • National University of Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Southern California

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joanne Yoong · University of Southern California

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-31
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

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