Interactive Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Early Postpartum Modern Contraceptive Method Uptake (EPPMC)

Wollo University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Other Cardiovascular Diseases of Mother, Postpartum

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile health intervention(mHealth)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05666037

JUIH/IRB/229/22

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main aim of this study is to determine effectiveness of mobile health intervention to improve early postpartum modern contraceptive service uptake among postpartum women in Dessie and Kombolcha town zones, North east Ethiopia. This study will be conducted in Dessie and Kombolcha zones in Amhara region, North east Ethiopia. The largest sample size will be taken and total sample size will be 784.

Full description

The main aim of this study is to determine effectiveness of mobile health intervention to improve early postpartum modern contraceptive service uptake among postpartum women in Dessie and Kombolcha town zones, North east Ethiopia. This study will be conducted in Dessie and Kombolcha zones in Amhara region, North east Ethiopia. The largest sample size will be taken and total sample size will be 784.

Cluster randomized control trial behavioral intervention sampling technique will be deployed. First participants will be grouped in to two arms based on randomization of clusters. The intervention arm will take the new mobile health intervention with existed health care practice and the control arm will take the existed current health care practice. Intervention mobile health messages will be developed from family planning behavior change framework and national guidelines. Data will be collected by using pre-tested interviewer administered structured questionnaires. Data will be collected in four different phases. Open data kit (ODK) will be used for data collection. Duration of intervention will be 4 months. Descriptive analyses will be made by computing proportions and summary statistics. Statistical package to social science (SPSS.26) and STATA.15 soft wares will be used to do analysis. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) or path analysis will be done to identify the fitted components to determine latent variables.

Enrollment: 784 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All mothers who will be 24-28 week of gestation and have access to mobile phone in the study area will be recruited to this study.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women, who will be assumed to have serious medical problems, will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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784 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will receive mobile health intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile health intervention(mHealth)

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm will be received the existed current health delivery approach, not received mobile health sending message service.