A Mobile-health Pilot Experiment Targeting Mothers With Newborns in Rural Areas of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala

Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exclusive Breastfeeding; Co-production of Health in Communities

Treatments: Device: Feature phone; Other: Uni-directional SMS; Other: Virtual communities; Other: Hybrid setup

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02263118

CE/FM UFM 0062-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to determine whether exposure to m-health platforms promoting recommended breastfeeding practices was effective in transmitting the exclusive breastfeeding message to participant mothers, and in improving weight evolution of infants.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Can read
• Has a baby of less than 4 months of age OR is in her 8th month of pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Cannot read
• Does not have a newborn

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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100 participants in 4 patient groups

Uni-directional SMS

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group received breastfeeding promoting messages based on the MAMA (http://www.mobilemamaalliance.org/) breastfeeding database. Individuals could only receive text messages.

Treatment:

Device: Feature phone

Other: Uni-directional SMS

Virtual communities

Experimental group

Description:

Participants were made part of virtual communities in which could exchange about infant's health as groups, via SMS, following the SHM Foundation's (http://www.shmfoundation.org/) m-health methodology.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual communities

Device: Feature phone

Other: Uni-directional SMS

Hybrid setup

Experimental group

Description:

Participants were made part of virtual communities in which they could exchange about infant's health as groups, via SMS. Additionally, a health professional was included in the virtual community.

Treatment:

Other: Hybrid setup

Other: Virtual communities

Device: Feature phone

Other: Uni-directional SMS

Control group

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals were given a feature phone (simple mobile phone)

Treatment:

Device: Feature phone