An Intervention Delivered by Text Message to Increase the Acceptability of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Palestine

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception

Treatments: Other: Text messages not about contraception; Behavioral: Contraceptive text messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02905461

10831

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomised controlled trial will establish the effect a contraceptive intervention delivered by mobile phone text message on the acceptability of effective contraception in Palestine. Woman aged 18-24 will be randomised to receive 0-3 text messages a day for 4 months (intervention) or a monthly text message not about contraception (control). Participants will complete a questionnaire at baseline and 4 month follow-up.

Enrollment: 586 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18-24 years
• Own a personal mobile phone
• Not using the pill, implant, injection, intrauterine device or patch
• Live in the West Bank

Exclusion criteria

• Cannot read Arabic

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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586 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Contraceptive text messages

Treatment:

Behavioral: Contraceptive text messages

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Text messages not about contraception

Treatment:

Other: Text messages not about contraception