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text4FATHER R21: Social Media - Efficacy Trial

NCT06289101 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2025-09-18

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Summary

This project will be the first to examine the efficacy of a text messaging intervention designed to recruit first-time fathers-to-be using social media across the U.S. to become involved during pregnancy through two months of postnatal age to support infant, mother, and father well-being.

Conditions

  • Fathers
  • 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

  • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

    collaborator FED

  • Johns Hopkins University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arik Marcell, MD, MPH · Johns Hopkins Dept of Pediatrics / Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-10
Primary Completion
2026-07-31
Completion
2026-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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