Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of Mobile Phone Delivered Reminders and Travel Subsidies to Improve Childhood Immunization Coverage Rates and Timeliness in Western Kenya (m-SIMU)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Haemophilus Influenzae Type b; Diphtheria; Hepatitis B; Pertussis; Tetanus; Measles

Treatments: Other: Travel subsidy; Other: SMS reminder; Other: Travel subsidy 2

Study type: Interventional

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

Identifiers

NCT01878435

OPP1053900

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project goal is to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test whether mobile phone short message system (SMS) reminders, either with or without mobile-phone based travel subsidies will improve timeliness, coverage, and drop-out rates of routine EPI vaccines in rural western Kenya.

Enrollment: 2,018 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 5 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Mother of infant aged 0-4 weeks during the study period
2. Current resident of one of the study villages
3. Willing to sign informed consent for the study

Exclusion criteria

1. Plans to move out of the study area in the next 6 months
2. Resides in a village with active immunization intervention/program
3. Has already received immunizations other than birth dose of BCG or polio

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,018 participants in 4 patient groups

SMS reminder

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: SMS reminder

SMS reminder and Travel subsidy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Travel subsidy

Other: SMS reminder

Control

No Intervention group

SMS reminder and Travel subsidy 2

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Travel subsidy 2

Other: SMS reminder