An Intervention Delivered by App Instant Messaging to Increase Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception

Treatments: Behavioral: Contraceptive instant messages; Other: Mobile phone app

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02905526

10999

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomised controlled trial will establish the effect a contraceptive intervention delivered by mobile phone app instant messaging on use of effective contraception in Bolivia. Woman aged 16-24 will be randomised to have access to Centro de Investigacion, Educacion y Servicios's sexual and reproductive health app (control) or the app plus 0-3 instant messages a day for 4 months (intervention). Participants will complete a questionnaire at baseline and 4 month follow-up.

Enrollment: 645 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 16-24
• Own a personal Android mobile phone
• Live in El Alto or La Paz Bolivia
• Sexually active
• Not using the pill, implant, injection, intrauterine device or patch
• Want to avoid a pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Cannot read Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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645 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

App plus the contraceptive instant messages

Treatment:

Other: Mobile phone app

Behavioral: Contraceptive instant messages

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

App only

Treatment:

Other: Mobile phone app