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

• Sponsor: University of Washington (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01894126
• Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (NIH), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH), University of Nairobi (Other), Kenyatta National Hospital (Other)
• Enrollment: 300
• Location: 1
• Arms: 3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Maternal Health; Neonatal Health; Family Planning	Behavioral: Two-way SMS Dialogue; Behavioral: One-way SMS Messaging	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 300 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Mobile Phone One Way Short Message Service (SMS) Versus SMS Dialogue for Women's and Child Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya: A Randomized Control Trial
• Study Start Date: Jul 1, 2013
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jul 1, 2015

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Two-way SMS dialogue 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	Behavioral: Two-way SMS Dialogue
Experimental: One-way SMS Messaging Women will receive scheduled one-way SMS messages	Behavioral: One-way SMS Messaging
No Intervention: Control

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Contraceptive uptake [10 weeks postpartum; 24 weeks postpartum]

2. Facility Delivery [Postpartum]

3. Exclusive Breastfeeding [24 weeks postpartum]

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. ANC attendance [Postpartum]

2. Infant Immunizations [Six months postpartum]

3. Maternal mortality [6 months postpartum]

4. Infant mortality [Six months postpartum]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Mathare North Health Centre	Nairobi		Kenya

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Washington
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• University of Nairobi
• Kenyatta National Hospital

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Jennifer Unger, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01894126
• Other Study ID Numbers: K12HD001264-14UNGER; K12HD001264-14
• First Posted: Jul 9, 2013
• Last Update Posted: Nov 9, 2016
• Last Verified: Nov 1, 2016

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Nov 9, 2016