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Leveraging Interactive Text Messaging to Monitor and Support Maternal Health in Kenya

NCT05369806 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2023-12-29

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Summary

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions such as interactive short message service (SMS) text messaging with healthcare workers (HCWs) have been proposed as efficient, accessible additions to traditional health care in resource-limited settings. Realizing the full public health potential of mHealth for maternal health requires use of new technological tools that dynamically adapt to user needs. This study will test use of a natural language processing computer algorithm on incoming SMS messages with pregnant people and new mothers in Kenya to see if it can help to identify urgent messages.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interactive two-way SMS dialogue

This study uses Mobile WACh, a human-computer hybrid system that enables two-way SMS communication and patient tracking, to provide consistent support to women and their infants during the peripartum period and 6 weeks into the baby's life. Women will receive automated SMS messages targeting the appropriate peripartum period and will have the capability to respond and spontaneously message a nurse based at the clinic. During pregnancy, automated SMS will be delivered weekly. Two weeks prior to the participant's estimated due date (EDD), daily messaging will begin, and will continue for two weeks after delivery is ascertained. Thereafter, SMS will be delivered every other day. Women who experience pregnancy or infant loss will be enrolled into an infant loss track. The NLP model will be applied to incoming participant messages. Those flagged as urgent by the model will be flagged within the SMS system, allowing study nurses to triage and appropriately respond to those messages.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Keshet Ronen, PhD · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-04
Primary Completion
2022-10-31
Completion
2022-10-31

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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