Impact Evaluation of the Pilot SMS Mother Reminder System

African Strategies for Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Effects of the SMS Mother Reminder System on Use of Health Care.

Treatments: Behavioral: SMS reminder messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02121821

MSH-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to assess the effects of the SMS Mother Reminder system on use of health care in Uganda. A secondary aim of the study is to determine the behavioral factors and cost-effectiveness, as well as test the usability of the SMS Mother Reminder in Uganda.

Full description

USAID/Uganda is commissioning a prospective impact evaluation of the initial SMS component of Uganda's National Health Record Program (NHRP) in order to inform strategic targeting of eHealth and future investments after the pilot phase of the NHRP mobile platform "SMS Mother Reminder". This impact evaluation will be designed to answer the following questions:

Primary evaluation question:

• What is the effect on maternal health outcomes (ANC4 and IPTP2) of the village health teams' use of the SMS Mother Reminder system?

Secondary evaluation questions:

• What factors most influence changes in health workers, village health teams and expectant women's knowledge, attitudes and practices in maternal health?
• To what extent is using the SMS Mother Reminder application to track and inform pregnant women a cost-effective intervention from the perspectives of USAID?
• To what extent can users easily carry out specific tasks (e.g. entering the information of pregnant women) of the SMS Mother Reminder application on mobile devices?

This study is funded by USAID through the African Strategies for Health project.

Enrollment: 11,454 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11,454 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

A control group of pregnant women receiving no intervention (i.e. no SMS reminders).

SMS reminder messages

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will be composed of pregnant women receiving SMS reminder messages via the SMS Mother Reminder system.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SMS reminder messages