Impact Evaluation of a Targeted mHealth Intervention to Improve Uptake of Postpartum Contraception in Kenya

Jacaranda Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Postpartum Family Planning

Treatments: Behavioral: PROMPTS Enhanced Family Planning Counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06266780

P1473-2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to explore approaches to improve postpartum contraceptive counseling, information, and uptake through a collaboration between the Harvard Chan School, Rutgers School of Public Health, Jacaranda Health, Jhpiego, and IPSOS, leveraging an existing mobile health platform for intervention delivery and Jacaranda's established partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, county health offices and public maternity hospitals.

Jacaranda's PROMPTS mHealth platform has reached over two million pregnant women and new mothers, providing them with needed, tailored information about prenatal and postpartum health along with access to a mobile helpdesk to triage users' questions. Using a targeted human-centered-design process with early postpartum mothers, we developed targeted messaging around family planning and contraceptive method options, with the goal of integrating this new content into Jacaranda's PROMPTS platform. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial with pregnant women engaged with the PROMPTS platform to determine the impact of the intervention package on information and utilization of postpartum contraception. If proven effective, the results of this intervention will be integrated into Jacaranda's PROMPTS system at full scale.

Enrollment: 4,190 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 15 and over,
• Pregnant at 7-8 months gestation,
• Consented to be enrolled in the PROMPTS text-messaging platform and who have provided informed consent to be part of this research study
• Have access to a mobile phone

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4,190 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Group receiving enhanced package of postpartum family planning support

Treatment:

Behavioral: PROMPTS Enhanced Family Planning Counselling

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group receiving basic postpartum family planning information