Mobile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF)

Marie Stopes International

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception; mHealth; Post-abortion Family Planning

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile phone-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01823861

MarieStopes

Details and patient eligibility

About

An individual randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of a voice-based mobile phone health (mHealth) intervention to support post-abortion family planning (PAFP) at four Marie Stopes International clinics in Cambodia.

The study seeks to address the research question: does a PAFP mHealth intervention increase use of contraception in Cambodia? STUDY RESULTS: http://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/en/

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Client attending for abortion
• Client does not want to have a child at the current time
• Client aged 18 or over
• Client owns a mobile phone
• Client willing to receive simple voice messages relating to contraception from Marie Stopes in Khmer language

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting inclusion criteria
• Declined to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile phone-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Standard care plus automated voice message to support post-abortion contraception use every two weeks for total of three months and direct follow up phone call by family planning counsellor depending on response to voice message.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile phone-based intervention

Standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

Face-to-face post-abortion family planning (PAFP) counselling, follow-up at one or two weeks, clinic phone number, existing 'Hotline' phone number.