Mobile Phone Messaging to Improve Women's and Children's Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya

University of Washington

Status

Completed

Conditions

Family Planning

Neonatal Health

Maternal Health

Treatments

Behavioral: Two-way SMS Dialogue

Behavioral: One-way SMS Messaging

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT01894126

K12HD001264-14UNGER

K12HD001264-14 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

With the increased prevalence of cellular phones, mobile technology provides an important tool to reach underserved populations in low to middle income countries. mHealth interventions offer promise to improve maternal child health throughout the reproductive health continuum if they contribute to increasing skilled birth attendance, family planning and exclusive breastfeeding. We propose a randomized clinical trial to determine effect of using mobile phones to deliver SMS (one-way) versus an interactive SMS dialogue (two-way) on uptake of reproductive and neonatal health services and maternal and infant outcomes

Enrollment

300 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

14+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant
Access to a mobile phone
Able to read SMS messages
Willing to receive SMS messages

Exclusion criteria

Unwilling or unable to meet inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

300 participants in 3 patient groups

Two-way SMS dialogue

Experimental group

Description:

Women will receive SMS messages with prompts to reply. They will have the ability to text back to the system and both respond to and initiate SMS dialogue

Treatment:

Behavioral: Two-way SMS Dialogue

One-way SMS Messaging

Experimental group

Description:

Women will receive scheduled one-way SMS messages

Treatment:

Behavioral: One-way SMS Messaging

Control

No Intervention group