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Kilkari Impact Evaluation

NCT03576157 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5095

Last updated 2022-09-30

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Summary

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Media Action is presently implementing two large scale mobile health (mHealth) initiatives in India: Kilkari and Mobile Academy. Kilkari is an outbound service that delivers weekly, time-appropriate audio messages about pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare directly to families on their mobile phones, starting from the second trimester of pregnancy until the child is one-year-old. Mobile Academy (MA) is an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) in-service audio training course for Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) in India designed to refresh their knowledge of life-saving preventative health behaviors and improve their interpersonal communications skills. Both programs were initiated in Bihar in 2012, and have been scaled widely in a number of states with support from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) at the national level, National Health Missions (NHM) at the state level, and an alliance of donors (Gates Foundation, USAID, Barr Foundation, and UK Department for International Development (UKAid)).

The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Oxford Policy Management, and University of Cape Town are supporting BBC Media Action and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) are conducting an external evaluation of both Kilkari and Mobile Academy (MA). The evaluation spans through April 2020.

Conditions

  • Breast Feeding
  • Family Planning
  • Essential Newborn Care
  • Training of Frontline Health Workers

Interventions

OTHER

Kilkari

Kilkari is an outbound service that delivers weekly, time-appropriate audio messages about pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare directly to families on their mobile phones, starting from the second trimester of pregnancy until the child is one-year-old.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oxford Policy Management

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Cape Town

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amnesty E LeFevre, PhD · Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, University of Cape Town

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-07
Primary Completion
2020-03-20
Completion
2021-12-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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