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Text4Father Pilot Feasibility, Acceptability Study

NCT04101565 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-05-04

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Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of Text4Father among first-time lower income fathers. Half of the participants will receive Text4Father - a text messaging educational program - from mid-pregnancy through 2 months of postnatal age, while the other half will receive usual care.

Conditions

  • Fathers
  • Mhealth
  • Mobile Health
  • Nuclear Family

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Text4Father

Receipt of twice-weekly texts that include resource links and instructions to support behavior change (e.g., videos, infographics) and start mid-pregnancy and continuing through 2 months of age.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Johns Hopkins University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arik V Marcell, MD, MPH · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-26
Primary Completion
2024-05-14
Completion
2024-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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