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Using a Mobile Phone-based Multimedia Technology to Support Maternal Health in Rural Southwestern Uganda

NCT04089800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2020-06-09

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Summary

The overall goal of the MatHealth project is to improve maternal health using an enhanced mobile phone-based multimedia application among illiterate women in rural southwestern Uganda. Building on a prototype of a mobile maternal health support technology developed as part of the on-going PhD research by one of our team members, The investigators will redesign the prototype to make it suitable for illiterate populations by engaging the local communities/prospective users to incorporate multimedia components such as videos and audios. Using the enhanced prototype, the investigators will carry out a reasonably large scale field study in Uganda, where the investigators will empirically implement the prototype among the rural community and assess its preliminary impact on maternal health. The investigators hypothesize that implementing the enhanced prototype will result in increased access to high quality, relevant local and culturally acceptable maternal health information that can enable mothers and families demonstrate improved health-seeking and preventative behaviors, including early uptake and adherence to antenatal check-ups and care including HIV testing, good nutrition, birth preparedness, dealing with danger signs, among others; all of which should ultimately contribute to improved maternal and child survival. The investigators will contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning by engaging with the local/user communities, policy makers, and researchers to share lessons learned and best practices.This will potentially facilitate the translation of our research findings into medical care.

Conditions

  • Maternal Health
  • Multimedia
  • mHealth

Interventions

OTHER

Mobile phone based multimedia application

The investigators shall develop a multimedia mobile health application using Java programming language, while the database that hosts multimedia messages shall be developed using SQlite. It shall be an offline (stand-alone) application following user-centered design approaches that involve incorporating input from pregnant women as prospective users. Pregnant women shall be provided with solar chargers to supplement electricity charging. The application has three major functionalities, appointment reminder function, calling function and the multimedia (Video and audio) function.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mbarara University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Angella Musiimenta, PhD · Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-20
Primary Completion
2020-04-30
Completion
2020-04-30

Countries

  • Uganda

Study Locations

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